Kahlil Gibran is best known as the author of The Prophet, one of the best-selling books of all time. He was part of the Mahjar movement in Arabic literature and symbolism. He’s remembered as a poet, author, and philosopher, despite his rejection of the latter. Throughout his life, he wrote short stories, political essays, and coined famous aphorisms. Read more of Kahlil Gibran’s Biography.
‘On Joy and Sorrow’ by Kahlil Gibran is a meditative, insightful, poetic essay that makes interesting implications about the inseparable emotions of joy and sorrow.
Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears.
And how else can it be?
‘On Children’ is the third prose-poem of Kahlil Gibran’s best-loved work, “The Prophet”. Through this poem, the prophet Al Mustafa explores how parents should think about their children.
‘On Love’ appears in the second part of Kahlil Gibran’s best-known work “The Prophet”. It is a thoughtful meditation on spiritual love by the prophet Al Mustafa.
‘Song of the Flower’ by Khalil Gibran describes what the life of a flower involves, from sunrises and weddings to perpetual optimism.
‘The Perfect World’ describes what a speaker sees as an ideal way to live in order to take advantage of all that God has created.
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