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.
australian-actor dreams tomorrow yesterday
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.
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
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...
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.
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.
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
being-alone slavery doe
Love that does not renew itself every day becomes a habit and in turn a slavery.
remembrance form meetings
Remembrance is a form of meeting.
jewels definitions coal
Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
survival would-be beloved
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
inspirational-love thinking knives
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?