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Poetry is not the opinion stated. It is a song that appears instead of a bloody wound or a smiling mouth.

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
Wounds
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Wound
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For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.
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For Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining and Passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
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But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.
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I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.
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But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.
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Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.
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Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
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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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Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.
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He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
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To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.
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