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

“You give but little when you give of your possessions.”

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

“Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.”

“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”

“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.”

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”

“It was many and many a year ago,”

“I do not write to you, but of you,/because the paper that we write on/is our perishable skin.”

“The Journey”

“Reading someone's poetry is like seeing them naked" -Davis Pritchett”

“Sanjit says his apartment, the same one in which he grew up, has been flooded many times by the midsummer torrents. For what has been for millennia a primarily agricultural society, rains simultaneously destroy, create, and preserve life in India, similar to the functions of the three premier Hindu gods, Shiva, Brahma, and Vishnu. Every time Kolkata gets pounded by a cyclone, or when the monsoon first erupts in June (although the recent warming of the Indian Ocean increasingly disturbs a once-consistent timeline), Sanjit never fails to send along a video, his house flooded – seemingly destroyed – but the smiles on his, Bajju’s, or other house-guest’s faces signify just the opposite, having been cooled and relieved of perpetual heat. Flooded, they remain preserved.”