Lines by Kahlil Gibran
Kahlil Gibran
جبران خليل جبران
Lebanese-American poet and painter · 1883–1931
Kahlil Gibran was born in the mountains of Lebanon and grew up in Boston. The Prophet, twenty-six prose poems on love, work, children and death, has never been out of print since 1923.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
The Prophet, On Children
Work is love made visible.
The Prophet, On Work