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Poet Quotes by Khalil Gibran
- A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,…
- I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what life composes.
- God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our…
- We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
- The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him…
- Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
- Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?
- The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of…
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