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
sometimes truth-is known
A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.
wedding heart beloved
Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.
mountain-peaks funeral soul
I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.
dream spring heart
Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
democracy half guilty
The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.
death grieving bereavement
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
death heart eye
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heath of life? The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light. If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one. For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
dream earth aging
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born.
return earth eternity
Only those return to Eternity Who on earth seek out Eternity.
lonely brother strong
I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
language seven
We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.
habit meaningless
Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
science science-and-religion accord
Science and religion are in full accord, but science and faith are in complete discord.
uplifting healing leader
The ageless melody, unheard, heals; the healing vision, unseen, leads; the true leaders, immortal, know....