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
love giving prophet
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
failure shy shyness
A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.
faces mask
Death changes nothing but the mask that covers our faces.
heart play would-be
Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.
love cutting hands
God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?
dream jesus laughter
In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.
strong iron judgement
You, the strong, have I loved, though the marks of your iron hoofs are yet upon my flesh.
love-is house mirages
Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
yesterday necks bent
Follow only beauty and obey only love.
eye alive want
A word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you will see me in front of you.
men blessing hymns
Men would bless you or curse you; The curse, a protest against failure, The blessing, a hymn of the hunter Who comes back from the hills With provision for his mate.
parenting yesterday bows-and-arrows
For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.
mean men court-judges
Your thought describes laws, courts, judges, punishments. Mine explains that when man makes a law, he either violates it or obeys it. If there is a basic law, we are all one before it. He who disdains the mean is himself mean. He who vaunts his scorn of the sinful vaunts his disdain of all humanity.
wisdom voice said
If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts.