Poetry Quote by Kahlil Gibran — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

““But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:”

“Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.”

“Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

“The two lovers walked among the willow trees, and the oneness of each was a language speaking of the oneness of both; and an ear listening in silence to the inspiration of love; and a seeing eye seeing the glory of happiness. "Astarte has brought back our souls to this life so that the delights of love and the glory of youth might not be forbidden us, my beloved.”

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”

“Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray.”

“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”

“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice the ring that’s landed on your finger, a massive”

“It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem,—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.”

“Her voice sounds like velvet and heaven.”

“All acts of kindness are lights in the war for justice.”