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
courage blood perfection
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
sympathy death grief
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
beautiful mother parenting
Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind.
inspirational spiritual blood
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
stars night light
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
voice giving ears
Give me an ear and I will give you a Voice...
wise wisdom aggravation
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
spiritual soul path
Say not, I have found the path of the soul Say rather, I have met the soul walking upon my path.
world this-world contempt
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
doubt patient be-patient
Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
volcanoes enthusiasm grass
Enthusiasm is a volcano on whose top never grows the grass of hesitation.
darkness dawn born
Darkness is dawn not yet born.
house body
Your house is your larger body.
inspiring time exhilaration
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.