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
laughing storm together
Defeat, my defeat, my deathless courage, You and I shall laugh together with the storm, And together we shall dig graves for all that die in us, and we shall stand in the sun with a will, And we shall be dangerous
soul everyday traveller
A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
eye clouds hands
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it,
heart secret speak
These things he said in words. But much in his heart remained unsaid. For he himself could not speak his deeper secret.
regret children justification
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets
yellow tree silent
And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
song morning night
For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.
sister mother sleep
Women opened the windows of my eyes and the doors of my spirit. Had it not been for the woman-mother, the woman-sister, and the woman-friend, I would have been sleeping among those who seek the tranquility of the world with their snoring.
sympathy love-is doe
Love is timeless.... Death does not separate the lover from the beloved.
death grieving bereavement
When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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.
inspirational wrath evil
In battling evil, excess is good; for he who is moderate in announcing the truth is presenting half-truth. He conceals the other half out of fear of people's wrath.
heart night men
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.
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.