Occupation: Poet Birth: January 6, 1883 Death: April 10, 1931
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips..
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness..
Work is love made visible..
Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men..
Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of nature agree to find new shapes..
My friends: Music is the language of spirits. Its melody is like the frolicsome breeze that makes the strings quiver with love. When the gentle fi….
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand..
My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers retur….
All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand..
Yea, death and prison we mete out To small offenders of the laws, While honor, wealth, and full respect On greater pirates we bestow. To steal a flow….
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity ….
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though ….
Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms..
If you would behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and sea are one..
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face..
Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof..
Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it s….
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And w….
There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine..
I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a h….
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is..