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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Khalil Gibran

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Khalil Gibran
Age: 48 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 6
Died: 1931
Died: April 10
Painter
Philosopher
Poet
Writer
The Spring
Gibran Khalil Gibran
Jubran Khalil Jubran
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Deal
Deals
Joy
Wonder
Pain
Dash
Dictionary
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Darkness is dawn not yet born.
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Many are the fools who say that Jesus stood in His own path and opposed Himself that He knew not His own mind, and in the absence of that knowledge confounded Himself.
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Remembrance is a form of meeting.
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Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
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You often say, I would give, but only to the deserving. The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
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The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.
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The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
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It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
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Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
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Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.
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Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
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Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
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Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.
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Listen to the women when she looks at you, not when she talks to you.
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When life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.
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Strange that we all defend our wrongs with more vigor than we do our rights.
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And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
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Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
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What is fear of need but need itself?
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