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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
Mouths
Poetry
Stated
Smiling
Instead
Wound
Opinion
Bloody
Song
Appears
Wounds
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The things which the child loves remain in the domain of the heart until old age. The most beautiful thing in life is that our souls remain hovering over the places where we once enjoyed ourselves. I am one of those who remembers those places regardless of distance or time.
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It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body
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To belittle, you have to be little.
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Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'
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When the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
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When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
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And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.
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A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.
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Inspiration will always sing inspiration will never explain.
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Life without Liberty is like a body without spirit. Liberty without thought is like a disturbed spirit.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Spare me the political events and power struggles, as the whole earth is my homeland and all men are my fellow countrymen.
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