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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
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Wounds
Mouth
Mouths
Poetry
Stated
Instead
Smiling
Opinion
Wound
Song
Bloody

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Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flower we call mean. To rob a field is chivalry Who kills the body he must die, Who kills the spirit he goes free.
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The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.
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I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.
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I existed from all eternity and, behold, I am here and I shall exist till the end of time, for my being has no end.
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Trickery succeeds sometimes, but it always commits suicide.
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Tell your secret to the wind, but don't blame it for telling the trees.
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They say: 'If a man knew himself, he would know all mankind.' I say: 'If a man loved mankind, he would know something of himself.
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You may chain my hands, you may shackle my feet you may even throw me into a dark prison but you shall not enslave my thinking, because it is free!
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Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.
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Love is the gentle smile upon the lips of beauty.
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The nearest to my heart are a king without a kingdom and a poor man who does not know how to beg.
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A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue.
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Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
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And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.
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Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.
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There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
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Poetry, my dear friends, is a sacred incarnation of a smile. Poetry is a sigh that dries the tears. Poetry is a spirit who dwells in the soul, whose nourishment is the heart, whose wine is affection. Poetry that comes not in this form is a false messiah.
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The just is close to the people's heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
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