Quotes and sayings from Kahlil Gibran

Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer, poet, and visual artist born on January 6, 1883, in Bsharri, Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate, Ottoman Empire. He is best known for his book “The Prophet,” which has been translated into over 100 languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide. Gibran’s family immigrated to the United States when he was 12 years old, and he spent most of his life in the US. He studied art in Paris from 1908 to 1910, where he came in contact with Syrian political thinkers promoting rebellion in Ottoman Syria after the Young Turk Revolution. Some of Gibran’s writings, voicing the same ideas as well as anti-clericalism, would eventually be banned by the Ottoman authorities. Gibran’s works are known for their philosophical and spiritual themes, and his writing style is characterized by its poetic prose. Some of his other notable works include “The Madman,” “Broken Wings,” and “Sand and Foam”.