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
怪事一件便是。只要我身处在教堂的环境里。思路就会格外清晰。记得当年曾看过一本讲述命理的书籍。上面说任何人眼睛与眉毛的距离越远。他就越会对宗教信仰有着格外的理解和执着。书中还拿若干和尚伊斯兰教徒举例。但是否真的属实。却一直不得而知。 两年前的一段时间我曾...
評分The Prophet is a book of prose poetry that made its Lebanese-American author famous. Commonly found in gift shops and frequently quoted at weddings or any occasion where uplifting 'spiritual' thoughts are required, the work has never been a favori...
評分大一的时候,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 ...
評分 評分仰望智慧。不過語言讀起來還真是要費一番功夫
评分先知是個話癆
评分認真讀下來我覺得最近糾結的所有問題都解決瞭。生命甘泉。
评分Much of your pain is self-chosen.
评分仰望智慧。不過語言讀起來還真是要費一番功夫
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