The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
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The Prophet, passage 492
Shall the nightingale offend the
stillness of the night, or the firefly
the stars?
The Prophet, passage 385
And he who is versed in the science
of numbers can tell of the regions
of weight and measure, but he cannot
conduct you thither.
The Prophet, passage 283
And the white-handed is not clean in the
doings of the felon.
The Prophet, passage 312
And of him who comes early to the
wedding-feast, and when over-fed and
tired goes his way saying that all
feasts are violation and all feasters
lawbreakers?
The Prophet, passage 646
“Stranger, stranger, lover of
unreachable heights, why dwell you among
the summits where eagles build
their nests?
The Prophet, passage 374
For self is a sea boundless and
measureless.
The Prophet, passage 238
And though you seek in garments the
freedom of privacy you may find in them
a harness and a chain.
The Prophet, passage 658
That which is you dwells above the
mountain and roves with the wind.
The Prophet, passage 638
And a good deed that calls itself by
tender names becomes the parent to a
curse.
The Prophet, passage 499
And now you ask in your heart, “How
shall we distinguish that which is
good in pleasure from that which is not
good?”
The Prophet, passage 245
And when the unclean shall be no more,
what were modesty but a fetter and a
fouling of the mind?
The Prophet, passage 351
And let it direct your passion with
reason, that your passion may live
through its own daily resurrection,
and like the phoenix rise above its own
ashes.
The Prophet, passage 23
Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with
sails full set awaits the wind.
The Prophet, passage 153
For to be overmindful of your debt, is
to doubt his generosity who has the
freehearted earth for mother, and God
for father.
The Prophet, passage 320
What laws shall you fear if you dance
but stumble against no man’s iron
chains?
The Prophet, passage 504
And to both, bee and flower, the giving
and the receiving of pleasure is a need
and an ecstasy.
The Prophet, passage 432
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food
even in dark caves, and when it thirsts
it drinks even of dead waters.
The Prophet, passage 533
And an old priest said, Speak to us
of _Religion_.
The Prophet, passage 324
At the city gate and by your fireside
I have seen you prostrate yourself and
worship your own freedom,
The Prophet, passage 93
To return home at eventide with
gratitude;
The Prophet, passage 104
Give one another of your bread but eat
not from the same loaf.
The Prophet, passage 229
But you, children of space, you restless
in rest, you shall not be trapped nor
tamed.
The Prophet, passage 133
These are the believers in life and
the bounty of life, and their coffer is
never empty.
The Prophet, passage 480
For they shall find pleasure, but not
her alone;
The Prophet, passage 83
Love possesses not nor would it be
possessed;
The Prophet, passage 323
And an orator said, Speak to us of
_Freedom_.
The Prophet, passage 346
But how shall I, unless you yourselves
be also the peacemakers, nay, the lovers
of all your elements?
The Prophet, passage 70
And when he speaks to you believe in
him,
The Prophet, passage 217
Would the valleys were your streets, and
the green paths your alleys, that you
might seek one another through
vineyards, and come with the fragrance
of the earth in your garments.
The Prophet, passage 38
If this is my day of harvest, in what
fields have I sowed the seed, and in
what unremembered seasons?
The Prophet, passage 267
Much in you is still man, and much in
you is not yet man,
The Prophet, passage 510
Like a young mother half-shy of her own
glory she walks among us.”
The Prophet, passage 99
But let there be spaces in your
togetherness,
The Prophet, passage 179
But if you in your pain call birth an
affliction and the support of the flesh
a curse written upon your brow, then I
answer that naught but the sweat of
your brow shall wash away that which is
written.
The Prophet, passage 22
How often have you sailed in my dreams.
And now you come in my awakening, which
is my deeper dream.
The Prophet, passage 124
Then said a rich man, Speak to us of
_Giving_.
The Prophet, passage 183
And all knowledge is vain save when
there is work,
The Prophet, passage 30
And he heard their voices calling his
name, and shouting from field to field
telling one another of the coming of his
ship.
The Prophet, passage 559
In the depth of your hopes and desires
lies your silent knowledge of the
beyond;
The Prophet, passage 673
The veil that clouds your eyes shall be
lifted by the hands that wove it,
The Prophet, passage 204
When you are joyous, look deep into your
heart and you shall find it is only
that which has given you sorrow that is
giving you joy.
The Prophet, passage 325
Even as slaves humble themselves before
a tyrant and praise him though he slays
them.
The Prophet, passage 199
Then a woman said, Speak to us of
_Joy and Sorrow_.
The Prophet, passage 47
Suffer not yet our eyes to hunger for
your face.
The Prophet, passage 274
And as a single leaf turns not yellow
but with the silent knowledge of the
whole tree,
The Prophet, passage 249
It is in exchanging the gifts of the
earth that you shall find abundance and
be satisfied.
The Prophet, passage 288
And when the black thread breaks, the
weaver shall look into the whole cloth,
and he shall examine the loom also.
The Prophet, passage 626
Less than a promise have I given, and
yet more generous have you been to me.
The Prophet, passage 137
They give as in yonder valley the myrtle
breathes its fragrance into space.
The Prophet, passage 400
For it is his to fill your need, but not
your emptiness.