The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Prophet, passage 697
And a cry came from the people as from a
single heart, and it rose into the dusk
and was carried out over the sea like a
great trumpeting.
The Prophet, passage 691
You have sung to me in my
aloneness, and I of your longings have
built a tower in the sky.
The Prophet, passage 567
Only when you drink from the river of
silence shall you indeed sing.
The Prophet, passage 415
For his soul will keep the truth of
your heart as the taste of the wine is
remembered
The Prophet, passage 547
The things you have fashioned in
necessity or for delight.
The Prophet, passage 612
I only speak to you in words of that
which you yourselves know in thought.
The Prophet, passage 358
Your pain is the breaking of the shell
that encloses your understanding.
The Prophet, passage 433
You are good when you are one with
yourself.
The Prophet, passage 35
And shall my desires flow like a
fountain that I may fill their cups?
The Prophet, passage 503
And to the flower a bee is a messenger
of love,
The Prophet, passage 313
What shall I say of these save that
they too stand in the sunlight, but with
their backs to the sun?
The Prophet, passage 420
Of time you would make a stream upon
whose bank you would sit and watch its
flowing.
The Prophet, passage 14
The sea that calls all things unto her
calls me, and I must embark.
The Prophet, passage 610
Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles
in her drowsiness and is not offended.
The Prophet, passage 444
And even stumbling speech may strengthen
a weak tongue.
The Prophet, passage 115
You may give them your love but not your
thoughts,
The Prophet, passage 591
And oftentimes I was among you a lake
among the mountains.
The Prophet, passage 31
Shall the day of parting be the day of
gathering?
The Prophet, passage 61
Yet this we ask ere you leave us, that
you speak to us and give us of your
truth.
The Prophet, passage 95
Then Almitra spoke again and said,
And what of _Marriage_ master?
The Prophet, passage 88
To melt and be like a running brook that
sings its melody to the night.
The Prophet, passage 411
And there are those who have the truth
within them, but they tell it not in
words.
The Prophet, passage 299
Yet you cannot lay remorse upon the
innocent nor lift it from the heart of
the guilty.
The Prophet, passage 221
Have you remembrances, the glimmering
arches that span the summits of the
mind?
The Prophet, passage 596
The vast man in whom you are all but
cells and sinews;
The Prophet, passage 657
You are not enclosed within your bodies,
nor confined to houses or fields.
The Prophet, passage 326
Ay, in the grove of the temple and in
the shadow of the citadel I have seen
the freest among you wear their freedom
as a yoke and a handcuff.
The Prophet, passage 48
And the priests and the priestesses said
unto him:
The Prophet, passage 306
And when you destroy them the ocean
laughs with you.
The Prophet, passage 599
And in beholding him that I beheld you
and loved you.
The Prophet, passage 195
And if you cannot work with love but
only with distaste, it is better that
you should leave your work and sit at
the gate of the temple and take alms of
those who work with joy.
The Prophet, passage 37
A seeker of silences am I, and what
treasure have I found in silences that I
may dispense with confidence?
The Prophet, passage 525
But rather a heart enflamed and a soul
enchanted.
The Prophet, passage 241
Some of you say, “It is the north wind
who has woven the clothes we wear.”
The Prophet, passage 526
It is not the image you would see nor
the song you would hear,
The Prophet, passage 309
But to whom life is a rock, and the law
a chisel with which they would carve it
in their own likeness?
The Prophet, passage 378
The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of
countless petals.
The Prophet, passage 178
And to love life through labour is to be
intimate with life’s inmost secret.
The Prophet, passage 135
And there are those who give with pain,
and that pain is their baptism.
The Prophet, passage 661
If these be vague words, then seek not
to clear them.
The Prophet, passage 304
Like children playing by the ocean who
build sand-towers with constancy and
then destroy them with laughter.
The Prophet, passage 132
And there are those who have little and
give it all.
The Prophet, passage 698
Only Almitra was silent, gazing after
the ship until it had vanished into
the mist.
The Prophet, passage 395
For that which you love most in him
may be clearer in his absence, as the
mountain to the climber is clearer
from the plain.
The Prophet, passage 593
And to my silence came the laughter
of your children in streams, and the
longing of your youths in rivers.
The Prophet, passage 8
But as he descended the hill, a sadness
came upon him, and he thought in his
heart:
The Prophet, passage 589
And your heart-beats were in my heart,
and your breath was upon my face, and I
knew you all.
The Prophet, passage 102
Let it rather be a moving sea between
the shores of your souls.
The Prophet, passage 582
If aught I have said is truth, that
truth shall reveal itself in a clearer
voice, and in words more kin to your
thoughts.
The Prophet, passage 67
And he raised his head and looked upon
the people, and there fell a stillness
upon them. And with a great voice he
said: