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 ...
评分在看此书的时候,我尽量让心思不受一些外界因素的困扰,比如这本书的来历,这是件难以启齿的事,而大凡这类事,总是因为有着令自己也无法饶恕的过错。 努力许久仍是无法摆脱深重的歉疚,为此我乞求先知的宽恕。 ... 这本书描述的故事均是关于生命的真理宣言,在你感到生命绝...
评分这世上有这样一本书,他是最伟大的书 它包含了这个世界的秘密,写说着真理,记述着美,款款深情地讲着人类于神灵的感情 我读了这本书,然后烧了他 众人都责备我,憎恨我 但又认为我读了最伟大的书,成了仅次于神的智者 因而又崇拜我,仰慕我,以百花的身躯装饰我的长发,以清香...
先知是个话痨
评分I have reached an age where spiritual books can't break me into tears anymore. But I reckon I can still take comfort from the fact that at least they can help me finish my sandwich 。_。
评分由于去了趟黎巴嫩 把这书看了 还去看了纪伯伦的博物馆。Sans plus.
评分老派过度就不见得是好事了。
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