gibran

     

Khalil Gibran (full name Gibran Khalil Gibran bin Mikhael bin Saâ, Arabic: جبران خليل جبران بن ميخائيل بن سعد, Syriac: ܟ݂ܠܝܠ ܔܒܪܢ) (born January 6, 1883 in Bsharri, Lebanon; died April 10, 1931 in New York City, United States) was a Lebanese American artist, poet, writer, philosopher and theologian. He was born in Lebanon (at the time the Mount Lebanon sub-district in the Ottoman province of Syria) and spent most of his life in the United States. He is the third bestselling poet in history after William Shakespeare and Lao Tse.

Trivia about gibran

  • "For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun", he wrote in "The Prophet"