The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Prophet, passage 129
And what is fear of need but need
itself?
The Prophet, passage 681
Yet quietly my captain awaits my
silence.
The Prophet, passage 18
And alone and without his nest shall the
eagle fly across the sun.
The Prophet, passage 354
Among the hills, when you sit in the
cool shade of the white poplars, sharing
the peace and serenity of distant fields
and meadows--then let your heart say in
silence, “God rests in reason.”
The Prophet, passage 215
It grows in the sun and sleeps in the
stillness of the night; and it is not
dreamless. Does not your house dream?
and dreaming, leave the city for grove
or hilltop?
The Prophet, passage 642
True it is that I have climbed the hills
and walked in remote places.
The Prophet, passage 214
For even as you have home-comings in
your twilight, so has the wanderer in
you, the ever distant and alone.
The Prophet, passage 106
Even as the strings of a lute are alone
though they quiver with the same music.
The Prophet, passage 180
You have been told also that life is
darkness, and in your weariness you echo
what was said by the weary.
The Prophet, passage 222
Have you beauty, that leads the heart
from things fashioned of wood and stone
to the holy mountain?
The Prophet, passage 647
And what vaporous birds do you hunt in
the sky?
The Prophet, passage 292
And if any of you would punish in the
name of righteousness and lay the ax
unto the evil tree, let him see to its
roots;
The Prophet, passage 71
Though his voice may shatter your dreams
as the north wind lays waste the garden.
The Prophet, passage 538
All your hours are wings that beat
through space from self to self.
The Prophet, passage 664
Life, and all that lives, is conceived
in the mist and not in the crystal.
The Prophet, passage 391
When your friend speaks his mind you
fear not the “nay” in your own mind, nor
do you withhold the “ay.”
The Prophet, passage 406
And in much of your talking, thinking is
half murdered.
The Prophet, passage 317
But you who walk facing the sun, what
images drawn on the earth can hold
you?
The Prophet, passage 277
And when one of you falls down he falls
for those behind him, a caution against
the stumbling stone.
The Prophet, passage 412
In the bosom of such as these the spirit
dwells in rhythmic silence.
The Prophet, passage 473
We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou
knowest our needs before they are born
in us:
The Prophet, passage 600
For what distances can love reach that
are not in that vast sphere?
The Prophet, passage 379
Then said a teacher, Speak to us of
_Teaching_.
The Prophet, passage 495
Oftentimes in denying yourself pleasure
you do but store the desire in the
recesses of your being.
The Prophet, passage 234
And though of magnificence and
splendour, your house shall not hold
your secret nor shelter your longing.
The Prophet, passage 519
In winter say the snow-bound, “She shall
come with the spring leaping upon the
hills.”
The Prophet, passage 282
The righteous is not innocent of the
deeds of the wicked,
The Prophet, passage 46
No stranger are you among us, nor
a guest, but our son and our dearly
beloved.
The Prophet, passage 414
Let the voice within your voice speak to
the ear of his ear;
The Prophet, passage 284
Yea, the guilty is oftentimes the victim
of the injured,
The Prophet, passage 672
But you do not see, nor do you hear, and
it is well.
The Prophet, passage 328
You shall be free indeed when your
days are not without a care nor your
nights without a want and a grief,
The Prophet, passage 641
He sits alone on hill-tops and looks
down upon our city.”
The Prophet, passage 82
Love gives naught but itself and takes
naught but from itself.
The Prophet, passage 667
That which seems most feeble and
bewildered in you is the strongest and
most determined.
The Prophet, passage 611
Think not I say these things in
order that you may say the one to the
other, “He praised us well. He saw but
the good in us.”
The Prophet, passage 16
Fain would I take with me all that is
here. But how shall I?
The Prophet, passage 455
Then a priestess said, Speak to us
of _Prayer_.
The Prophet, passage 643
How could I have seen you save from a
great height or a great distance?
The Prophet, passage 240
For the breath of life is in the
sunlight and the hand of life is in the
wind.
The Prophet, passage 12
It is not a garment I cast off this
day, but a skin that I tear with my own
hands.
The Prophet, passage 649
In the solitude of their souls they said
these things;
The Prophet, passage 42
These things he said in words. But much
in his heart remained unsaid. For he
himself could not speak his deeper
secret.
The Prophet, passage 529
But rather a garden for ever in bloom
and a flock of angels for ever in
flight.
The Prophet, passage 341
And when the shadow fades and is no
more, the light that lingers becomes a
shadow to another light.
The Prophet, passage 236
And the weaver said, Speak to us of
_Clothes_.
The Prophet, passage 196
For if you bake bread with indifference,
you bake a bitter bread that feeds but
half man’s hunger.
The Prophet, passage 26
Who alone are peace and freedom to the
river and the stream,
The Prophet, passage 173
When you work you are a flute through
whose heart the whispering of the hours
turns to music.
The Prophet, passage 269
And of the man in you would I now speak.