Poet, philosopher, and artist, was born in Lebanon, a land that has produced many prophets.
The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age.
But he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages.
His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake.
In the United States, which he made his home during the last twenty years of his life, he began to write in English.
The Prophet and his other books of poetry, illustrated with his mystical drawings, are known and loved by innumerable Americans who find in them an expression of the deepest impulses of man's heart and mind.
This quotation is from The Prophet's dust jacket, published by Knopf, NY
In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya
摘自《一千零一夜》节目文稿 我们常常说,经典是一种经得起时间洗礼的书。但是这个话是有问题的,为什么呢?没错,经典必须能够经得起时间的洗礼,但是并非所有经得起时间洗礼的都是经典。 这里面有一种情况,有一些文化作品,它推出的时候很受欢迎,但是那个受欢迎,不止是受...
评分 评分 评分大一的时候,最好的朋友手捧先知读的心潮澎湃…… 这几天我也在读,同样心神荡漾。 读着读着,心会慢慢平静下来。 "Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For ove is sufficient unto love." "Love ...
评分看到一篇《纽约客》关于纪伯伦的八卦文,作者援引了两部纪伯伦传记来证明:纪伯伦是个彻头彻尾的失败者和伪君子,《先知》也不过是另一部取巧的《心灵鸡汤》。 Joan Acocella——一位职业舞评人——的文字利落,简练,生动,画面感极强,直指痛处,好吧我承认对此我只有羡慕嫉...
It's in the vast man that you are vast
评分字字珠玑!<<For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, "I have found the truth," but rather, "I have found a truth." Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have met the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths.>>
评分仰望智慧。不过语言读起来还真是要费一番功夫
评分In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands.
评分I have reached an age where spiritual books can't break me into tears anymore. But I reckon I can still take comfort from the fact that at least they can help me finish my sandwich 。_。
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