Poet, philosopher, and artist, was born in Lebanon, a land that has produced many prophets.
The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age.
But he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages.
His drawings and paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world and compared by Auguste Rodin to the work of William Blake.
In the United States, which he made his home during the last twenty years of his life, he began to write in English.
The Prophet and his other books of poetry, illustrated with his mystical drawings, are known and loved by innumerable Americans who find in them an expression of the deepest impulses of man's heart and mind.
This quotation is from The Prophet's dust jacket, published by Knopf, NY
In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have. --Brian Bruya
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這書是高中買的中英對照版本! 現在每天睡前看看,就當時復習英語瞭! 黎巴嫩是個好地方,紀伯倫是個好人! 讀吧,先知先覺!
評分這書是高中買的中英對照版本! 現在每天睡前看看,就當時復習英語瞭! 黎巴嫩是個好地方,紀伯倫是個好人! 讀吧,先知先覺!
評分從來沒覺得詩是這樣平易近人的東西。 一直以來都不這麼覺得,雖然李白的床前明月光也是很通俗易懂。我也看過很多翻譯過來的詩,不是意境全在翻譯中成瞭渣滓,就是看不懂其中深邃的含義,隻能望詩興嘆,感慨自己水平低得另人發指。 《先知》就這樣顛覆瞭我的習慣。我從書架上...
評分 評分圖書標籤: 詩歌 哲學 紀伯倫 KahlilGibran 黎巴嫩 哲學 文學 philosophy
由於去瞭趟黎巴嫩 把這書看瞭 還去看瞭紀伯倫的博物館。Sans plus.
評分仰望智慧。不過語言讀起來還真是要費一番功夫
評分老派過度就不見得是好事瞭。
評分The question of reason and passion is given by the priestess..
評分先知是個話癆
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