The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Prophet, passage 322
People of Orphalese, you can muffle the
drum, and you can loosen the strings
of the lyre, but who shall command the
skylark not to sing?
The Prophet, passage 662
Vague and nebulous is the beginning of
all things, but not their end,
The Prophet, passage 303
Then a lawyer said, But what of our
_Laws_, master?
The Prophet, passage 545
Whenever you enter into it take with you
your all.
The Prophet, passage 595
But sweeter still than laughter and
greater than longing came to me.
The Prophet, passage 413
When you meet your friend on the
roadside or in the market place, let the
spirit in you move your lips and direct
your tongue.
The Prophet, passage 440
Surely the fruit cannot say to the root,
“Be like me, ripe and full and ever
giving of your abundance.”
The Prophet, passage 620
While you, heedless of its expansion,
bewail the withering of your days.
The Prophet, passage 202
Is not the cup that holds your wine the
very cup that was burned in the potter’s
oven?
The Prophet, passage 362
And you would watch with serenity
through the winters of your grief.
The Prophet, passage 481
Seven are her sisters, and the least of
them is more beautiful than pleasure.
The Prophet, passage 213
Build of your imaginings a bower in the
wilderness ere you build a house within
the city walls.
The Prophet, passage 73
Even as he ascends to your height and
caresses your tenderest branches
that quiver in the sun,
The Prophet, passage 91
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and
give thanks for another day of loving;
The Prophet, passage 644
How can one be indeed near unless he be
far?
The Prophet, passage 363
It is the bitter potion by which the
physician within you heals your sick
self.
The Prophet, passage 633
And though I have eaten berries among
the hills when you would have had me sit
at your board,
The Prophet, passage 370
The hidden well-spring of your soul must
needs rise and run murmuring to the sea;
The Prophet, passage 219
And tell me, people of Orphalese, what
have you in these houses? And what is it
you guard with fastened doors?
The Prophet, passage 590
Ay, I knew your joy and your pain,
and in your sleep your dreams were my
dreams.
The Prophet, passage 416
When the colour is forgotten and the
vessel is no more.
The Prophet, passage 684
It is closing upon us even as the
water-lily upon its own tomorrow.
The Prophet, passage 158
When you kill a beast say to him in your
heart,
The Prophet, passage 501
But it is also the pleasure of the
flower to yield its honey to the bee.
The Prophet, passage 201
The deeper that sorrow carves into your
being, the more joy you can contain.
The Prophet, passage 253
And suffer not the barren-handed to take
part in your transactions, who would
sell their words for your labour.
The Prophet, passage 231
It shall not be a glistening film that
covers a wound, but an eyelid that
guards the eye.
The Prophet, passage 290
Let him also weigh the heart of her
husband in scales, and measure his soul
with measurements.
The Prophet, passage 100
And let the winds of the heavens dance
between you.
The Prophet, passage 177
And in keeping yourself with labour you
are in truth loving life,
The Prophet, passage 386
For the vision of one man lends not its
wings to another man.
The Prophet, passage 458
And if it is for your comfort to pour
your darkness into space, it is also for
your delight to pour forth the dawning
of your heart.
The Prophet, passage 345
Would that I could be the peacemaker in
your soul, that I might turn the discord
and the rivalry of your elements into
oneness and melody.
The Prophet, passage 54
And others came also and entreated him.
But he answered them not. He only bent
his head; and those who stood near saw
his tears falling upon his breast.
The Prophet, passage 700
“A little while, a moment of rest upon
the wind, and another woman shall bear
me.”
The Prophet, passage 448
You are good in countless ways, and you
are not evil when you are not good,
The Prophet, passage 585
Man’s needs change, but not his love,
nor his desire that his love should
satisfy his needs.
The Prophet, passage 486
Yet if it comforts them to regret, let
them be comforted.
The Prophet, passage 161
Your blood and my blood is naught but
the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.”
The Prophet, passage 291
And let him who would lash the offender
look unto the spirit of the offended.
The Prophet, passage 211
When the treasure-keeper lifts you to
weigh his gold and his silver, needs
must your joy or your sorrow rise or
fall.
The Prophet, passage 603
His might binds you to the earth, his
fragrance lifts you into space, and in
his durability you are deathless.
The Prophet, passage 562
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the
shepherd when he stands before the king
whose hand is to be laid upon him in
honour.
The Prophet, passage 281
And the robbed is not blameless in being
robbed.
The Prophet, passage 301
And you who would
understand justice, how shall you unless
you look upon all deeds in the fullness
of light?
The Prophet, passage 172
For to be idle is to become a stranger
unto the seasons, and to step out of
life’s procession, that marches in
majesty and proud submission towards the
infinite.
The Prophet, passage 452
And in others it is a flat stream that
loses itself in angles and bends and
lingers before it reaches the shore.
The Prophet, passage 389
He is your field which you sow with love
and reap with thanksgiving.
The Prophet, passage 331
In truth that which you call freedom is
the strongest of these chains, though
its links glitter in the sun and dazzle
your eyes.
The Prophet, passage 242
But shame was his loom, and the
softening of the sinews was his thread.
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