The Prophet, passage 689

Farewell to you and the youth I have spent with you.

The Prophet, passage 609

And though in your winter you deny your spring,

The Prophet, passage 15

For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.

The Prophet, passage 271

Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world.

The Prophet, passage 431

For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?

The Prophet, passage 622

These mountains and plains are a cradle and a stepping-stone.

The Prophet, passage 174

Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

The Prophet, passage 80

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love’s threshing-floor,

The Prophet, passage 276

Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self.

The Prophet, passage 518

And at noontide the toilers and the wayfarers say, “We have seen her leaning over the earth from the windows of the sunset.”

The Prophet, passage 467

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

The Prophet, passage 484

But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement.

The Prophet, passage 142

You often say, “I would give, but only to the deserving.”

The Prophet, passage 171

You work that you may keep pace with the earth and the soul of the earth.

The Prophet, passage 90

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

The Prophet, passage 571

And he answered, Was it I who spoke? Was I not also a listener?

The Prophet, passage 404

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;

The Prophet, passage 637

Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,

The Prophet, passage 690

It was but yesterday we met in a dream.

The Prophet, passage 665

And who knows but a crystal is mist in decay?

The Prophet, passage 62

And we will give it unto our children, and they unto their children, and it shall not perish.

The Prophet, passage 128

And tomorrow, what shall tomorrow bring to the overprudent dog burying bones in the trackless sand as he follows the pilgrims to the holy city?

The Prophet, passage 337

And if it is a care you would cast off, that cart has been chosen by you rather than imposed upon you.

The Prophet, passage 561

Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The Prophet, passage 397

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

The Prophet, passage 604

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.

The Prophet, passage 302

Only then shall you know that the erect and the fallen are but one man standing in twilight between the night of his pigmy-self and the day of his god-self, And that the corner-stone of the temple is not higher than the lowest stone in its foundation.

The Prophet, passage 66

Then said Almitra, Speak to us of _Love_.

The Prophet, passage 43

And when he entered into the city all the people came to meet him, and they were crying out to him as with one voice.

The Prophet, passage 254

“Come with us to the field, or go with our brothers to the sea and cast your net;

The Prophet, passage 513

The tired and the weary say, “Beauty is of soft whisperings. She speaks in our spirit.

The Prophet, passage 584

And if this day is not a fulfilment of your needs and my love, then let it be a promise till another day.

The Prophet, passage 339

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.

The Prophet, passage 230

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast.

The Prophet, passage 9

How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city.

The Prophet, passage 475

Then a hermit, who visited the city once a year, came forth and said, Speak to us of _Pleasure_.

The Prophet, passage 97

You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.

The Prophet, passage 296

And how prosecute you him who in action is a deceiver and an oppressor,

The Prophet, passage 509

The aggrieved and the injured say, “Beauty is kind and gentle.

The Prophet, passage 377

The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.

The Prophet, passage 625

Others have come to you to whom for golden promises made unto your faith you have given but riches and power and glory.

The Prophet, passage 436

And a ship without rudder may wander aimlessly among perilous isles yet sink not to the bottom.

The Prophet, passage 692

But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer dawn.

The Prophet, passage 86

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

The Prophet, passage 508

And how shall you speak of her except she be the weaver of your speech?

The Prophet, passage 587

The mist that drifts away at dawn, leaving but dew in the fields, shall rise and gather into a cloud and then fall down in rain.

The Prophet, passage 435

For a divided house is not a den of thieves; it is only a divided house.

The Prophet, passage 469

But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart,

The Prophet, passage 477

And I fain would have you sing it with fullness of heart; yet I would not have you lose your hearts in the singing.

The Prophet, passage 553

You shall see Him smiling in flowers, then rising and waving His hands in trees.