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
causes heavens hidden voice
We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble.
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Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
blind darkness empty indeed knowledge life save urge vain work
Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.
daily heart less miracles pain seem wonder wondrous
Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy.
caravan faith heart oasis reached thinking
Faith is an oasis in the heart which can never be reached by the caravan of thinking
assigned curse dream fulfill furthest keeping labour loving truth work
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour 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, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...
commands hold instrument knew single stood string
Once I, deemed myself a poet. But when I stood before him in Bethany I knew what is was to hold an instrument with but a single string before one who commands all instruments
australian-actor cultivates knowledge seeds sow
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
alone asleep joy remember sorrow together
... joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.
australian-actor bare delights feet forget nature winds
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
australian-actor depth hour love until
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
beauty eternity good itself true wealth
A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
lost temper truth
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper
melt stand sun
For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?