The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Prophet, passage 3
The Madman. 1918 Twenty Drawings. 1919
The Forerunner. 1920 The Prophet. 1923
Sand and Foam. 1926 Jesus the Son of
Man. 1928 The Forth Gods. 1931 The
Wanderer. 1932 The Garden of the Prophet
1933 Prose Poems. 1934 Nymphs of the
Valley. 1948
The Prophet, passage 574
People of Orphalese, the wind bids me
leave you.
The Prophet, passage 101
Love one another, but make not a bond of
love:
The Prophet, passage 554
Then Almitra spoke, saying, We would ask now of _Death_.
The Prophet, passage 601
What visions, what expectations and what
presumptions can outsoar that flight?
The Prophet, passage 330
And how shall you rise beyond your days
and nights unless you break the
chains which you at the dawn of your
understanding have fastened around your
noon hour?
The Prophet, passage 652
For many of my arrows left my bow only
to seek my own breast.
The Prophet, passage 98
Aye, you shall be together even in the
silent memory of God.
The Prophet, passage 696
So saying he made a signal to the
seamen, and straightway they weighed
anchor and cast the ship loose from its
moorings, and they moved eastward.
The Prophet, passage 261
It is when your spirit goes wandering
upon the wind,
The Prophet, passage 205
When you are sorrowful look again in
your heart, and you shall see that
in truth you are weeping for that which
has been your delight.
The Prophet, passage 117
For their souls dwell in the house of
tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not
even in your dreams.
The Prophet, passage 422
And knows that yesterday is but today’s
memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
The Prophet, passage 162
And when you crush an apple with your
teeth, say to it in your heart,
The Prophet, passage 197
And if you grudge the crushing of the
grapes, your grudge distils a poison in
the wine.
The Prophet, passage 580
And with a richer heart and lips more
yielding to the spirit will I speak.
The Prophet, passage 7
Then the gates of his heart were flung
open, and his joy flew far over the sea.
And he closed his eyes and prayed in the
silences of his soul.
The Prophet, passage 639
And some of you have called me aloof,
and drunk with my own aloneness,
The Prophet, passage 69
Though the sword hidden among his
pinions may wound you.
The Prophet, passage 334
You cannot erase it by burning your law
books nor by washing the foreheads of
your judges, though you pour the sea
upon them.
The Prophet, passage 470
And if you but listen in the stillness
of the night you shall hear them saying
in silence,
The Prophet, passage 543
And he to whom worshipping is a window,
to open but also to shut, has not yet
visited the house of his soul whose
windows are from dawn to dawn.
The Prophet, passage 58
Prophet of God, in quest of the
uttermost, long have you searched the
distances for your ship.
The Prophet, passage 555
But how shall you find it unless you
seek it in the heart of life?
The Prophet, passage 511
And the passionate say, “Nay, beauty is
a thing of might and dread.
The Prophet, passage 85
And think not you can direct the course
of love, for love, if it finds you
worthy, directs your course.
The Prophet, passage 454
For the truly good ask not the naked,
“Where is your garment?” nor the
houseless, “What has befallen your
house?”
The Prophet, passage 461
Therefore let your visit to that temple
invisible be for naught but ecstasy and
sweet communion.
The Prophet, passage 136
And there are those who give and know
not pain in giving, nor do they seek
joy, nor give with mindfulness of
virtue;
The Prophet, passage 497
Even your body knows its heritage
and its rightful need and will not be
deceived.
The Prophet, passage 28
And then shall I come to you, a
boundless drop to a boundless ocean.
The Prophet, passage 524
It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty
hand stretched forth,
The Prophet, passage 621
It is life in quest of life in
bodies that fear the grave.
The Prophet, passage 656
And it is with this belief and this
knowledge that I say,
The Prophet, passage 401
And in the sweetness of friendship
let there be laughter, and sharing of
pleasures.
The Prophet, passage 190
And to know that all the blessed dead
are standing about you and watching.
The Prophet, passage 578
Brief were my days among you, and
briefer still the words I have spoken.
The Prophet, passage 109
And stand together yet not too near
together:
The Prophet, passage 393
For without words, in friendship, all
thoughts, all desires, all expectations
are born and shared, with joy that is
unacclaimed.
The Prophet, passage 479
I would not judge nor
rebuke them. I would have them seek.
The Prophet, passage 96
You were born together, and together you
shall be forevermore.
The Prophet, passage 76
He sifts you to free you from your
husks.
The Prophet, passage 33
And what shall I give unto him who has
left his plough in midfurrow, or to
him who has stopped the wheel of his
winepress?
The Prophet, passage 693
The noontide is upon us and our half
waking has turned to fuller day, and we
must part.
The Prophet, passage 699
And when all the people were dispersed
she still stood alone upon the sea-wall,
remembering in her heart his saying,
The Prophet, passage 372
But let there be no scales to weigh your
unknown treasure;
The Prophet, passage 535
And that which is neither deed nor
reflection, but a wonder and a surprise
ever springing in the soul, even while
the hands hew the stone or tend the
loom?
The Prophet, passage 79
But if in your fear you would seek only
love’s peace and love’s pleasure,
The Prophet, passage 228
Verily the lust for comfort murders
the passion of the soul, and then walks
grinning in the funeral.
The Prophet, passage 259
For the master spirit of the earth shall
not sleep peacefully upon the wind
till the needs of the least of you are
satisfied.