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Lebanese-American · 1883-1931 · 19 quotes
Lebanese-American · 1883–1931
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Khalil Gibran was the Lebanese-American poet, artist, and mystic whose prose-poem The Prophet, published in 1923, became one of the best-selling books of the twentieth century and has never gone out of print. Born in the Maronite Christian village of Bsharri in Lebanon in 1883, he emigrated to Boston as a child and taught himself English while developing his gifts as a visual artist and writer in both Arabic and English. The Prophet — twenty-six poetic essays delivered by a sage on the day of his departure — speaks to love, marriage, children, work, joy, sorrow, and death with an aphoristic directness that has made it the book pressed into the hands of the bereaved, the newly married, and the searching across every culture. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind — and yet, strangely, I am not grateful to those teachers: the sentence that best captures his method of turning experience into wisdom.
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