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
prayer laughing soul
if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing
spiritual wind tree
Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
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.
made tombs
You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.
brother land sea
Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net. For the land and the sea shall be bountiful to you even as to us.
life mind produces singer speak
When life life does not find a singer to sing her heart, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind
among follow hard hidden love sword ways wings wound yield
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.
blind deaf hands touch understand
You are blind and I am deaf and dumb, so let us touch hands and understand
dream reality vision
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
again australian-actor deep given giving heart shall sorrow truth weeping
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
forget whom
You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.
assigned cute-love dream fulfil furthest intimate keeping labour life love loving sweet-love truth work
When you work you fulfil a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born. And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour is to be intimate with life's inmost secret.
body less meet sun wind
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment
punishing thieves
What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?