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
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...
评分当初摘抄他的东西的时候,感觉没有《飞鸟集》的好。现在回过头来看,觉得至于现实比较的受用。尤其又看到里面关于朋友的一段,感慨良多: 总该邀朋友共享生命才是。 当你和朋友离别时,不要悲伤; 因为他最为你所珍爱的特质会在他离去后显得更加醒目,...
评分富有哲理,却又似潺潺流水缓缓而来。、 语言清丽,文词优美。这本身就是纪伯伦身为诗人的特色, 而冰心的翻译与之相得益彰,使全书更有着别样的音律美,特别适合诵读。
评分“当那些睡在绒毛上面的人所做的梦,并不比睡在土地上的人的梦更美好的时候,我怎能对生命的公平失掉信心呢?” ——纪伯伦 这些天看先知,也顺便浏览了一些冰心翻译的其他部分有关纪伯伦的诗集,这位黎巴嫩的“...
评分“当那些睡在绒毛上面的人所做的梦,并不比睡在土地上的人的梦更美好的时候,我怎能对生命的公平失掉信心呢?” ——纪伯伦 这些天看先知,也顺便浏览了一些冰心翻译的其他部分有关纪伯伦的诗集,这位黎巴嫩的“...
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评分Much of your pain is self-chosen.
评分先知是个话痨
评分认真读下来我觉得最近纠结的所有问题都解决了。生命甘泉。
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.>>
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