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
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....
faith powerful forever
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
wings yield may
When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
greatness poverty faces
Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
ideology mines
You have your ideology and I have mine.
wisdom despise turns
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
death land people
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
roots growth crowns
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.
summer gratitude regret
And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
quiver strings
As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.
together rejoice fragrance
And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.