Khalil Gibran (/dʒɪˈbrɑːn/; Full Arabic nameGibran Khalil Gibran, sometimes spelled Kahlil;Arabic:جبران خليل جبران / ALA-LC: Jubrān Khalīl Jubrān or Jibrān Khalīl Jibrān) (January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer of the New York Pen League.
Khalil Gibran was born in the town of Bsharri in the Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire (north of modern-day Lebanon), to Khalil Gibran and Kamila Gibran(Rahmeh). As a young man Khalil emigrated with his family to the United States, where he studied art and began his literary career, writing in both English and Arabic. In the Arab world, Gibran is regarded as a literary and political rebel. His romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature, especially prose poetry, breaking away from the classical school. In Lebanon, he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
He is chiefly known in the English-speaking world for his 1923 book The Prophet, an early example of inspirational fiction including a series of philosophical essays written in poetic English prose. The book sold well despite a cool critical reception, gaining popularity in the 1930s and again especially in the 1960s counterculture. Gibran is the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.
It was dedicated on May 24, 1991 by President George H. W. Bush. The fundraising for the monument was organized by the Kahlil Gibran Centennial Foundation, formed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the poet's birth in Bsharri.
Kahlil Gibran (`ka-lil jə-ˈbrän) (November 29, 1922– April 13, 2008), sometimes known as "Kahlil George Gibran" (note the artist’s preferred Americanized spelling of his first name), was a Lebanese painter and sculptor from Boston, Massachusetts. A student of the painter Karl Zerbe at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Gibran first received acclaim as a magic realist painter in the late 1940s when he exhibited with other emerging artists later known as the "Boston Expressionists". Called a "master of materials", as both artist and restorer, Gibran turned to sculpture in the mid-fifties. In 1972, in an effort to separate his identity from his famous relative and namesake, the author of The Prophet, Gibran Kahlil Gibran, who was cousin both to his father Nicholas Gibran and his mother Rose Gibran, the sculptor co-authored with his wife Jean a biography of the poet entitled Kahlil Gibran His Life And World. Gibran is known for multiple skills, including painting; wood, wax, and stone carving; welding; and instrument making.
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
"Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all."
"Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream."
"Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof."
"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
"Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself."
"Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations"
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I was asked to join Topeka’s own Mike Eichten for an interview on his "Nostalgic Advocate" podcast. If you haven’t listened, I encourage you to give it a try ... You don’t have to have a PhD to know things ...KahlilGibran, AmericanArab poet said ...
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