Khalil Gibran

And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.

Life is the mistress to be wooed.

Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon.

You are not enclosed within your bodies, nor confined to houses or fields. That which is you dwells above the mountain and roves with the wind.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Zeal is a volcano, the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Your friend is your needs answered.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.