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Quotes from Sand and Foam — Kahlil Gibran

1883–1931 Lebanon

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13 quotes

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Sand and Foam (1926)

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

Sand and Foam (1926)

Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Sand and Foam (1926)

If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.

Sand and Foam (1926)

When Life does not find a singer to sing her heart she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.

Sand and Foam (1926)

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Sand and Foam (1926)

A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes.

Sand and Foam (1926)

I would be the least among men with dreams and the desire to fulfill them, rather than the greatest with no dreams and no desires.

Sand and Foam (1926)

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Sand and Foam (1926)

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

Sand and Foam (1926)

My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues.

Sand and Foam (1926)

There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea

Sand and Foam (1926)

The reality of the other person is not in what he reveals to you, but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

Sand and Foam (1926)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Kahlil Gibran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.