Khalil Gibran
Khalil Gibran
Kahlil Gibranwas a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League...
NationalityLebanese
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth6 January 1883
CityBsharri, Lebanon
CountryLebanon
wind tears skins
He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked. The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin.
tears genius irritated
Wit is often a mask. If you tear it you will find either genius irritated or cleverness juggling.
tears tongue
Love provided me with a tongue and tears.
friendship beautiful tears
Love that is cleansed by tears will remain eternally pure and beautiful.
laughter tears scoffers
The tears that you spill, the sorrowful, are sweeter than the laughter of snobs and the guffaws of scoffers.
judgement tears chains
Harlots shall be made pure by their own tears. But you publicans shall be held down by the chains of your own judgement.
hands tears skins
It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.
sea tears sacred
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
aware knows memory timeless tomorrow yesterday
The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.
filled laughter rises
And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.
asking country desert oasis politician
Are you a politician asking what your country can do for you, or a zealous one asking what you can do for your country? If you are the first, then you are a parasite; if the second, then you are an oasis in the desert
beauty light
Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
daily heart less miracles pain seem wonder wondrous
Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.
blind deaf hands touch understand
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand