The Greatest Poet Of Love
KAHLIL GIBRAN
Gibran Khalil Gibran was born into a Maronite Catholic family from
the historical town of Bsharri in northern Mount Lebanon, His mother Kamila,
daughter of a priest, was thirty when he was born; his father Khalil was her
third husband. As a result of his family's poverty, Gibran received no formal
schooling during his youth in Lebanon. However, priests visited him regularly
and taught him about the Bible, as well as the Arabic and Syriac languages.
Haskell influenced not only Gibran's personal life, but also his
career. She became his editor, and introduced him to Charlotte Teller, a
journalist, and Emilie Michel (Michelin, a French teacher, who accepted to pose
for him as a model and became close friends.[17] In 1908, Gibran went to study
art in Paris for two years. While there he met his art study partner and lifelong
friend Youssef Howayek.[18] While most of Gibran's early writings were in
Arabic, most of his work published after 1918 was in English. His first book
for the publishing company Alfred A. Knopf, in 1918, was The Madman, a slim
volume of aphorisms and parables written in biblical cadence somewhere between
poetry and prose. Gibran also took part in the New York Pen League, also known
as the "immigrant poets" (al-mahjar), alongside important
Lebanese-American authors such as Ameen Rihani, Elia Abu Madi and Mikhail
Naimy, a close friend and distinguished master of Arabic literature, whose
descendants Gibran declared to be his own children, and whose nephew, Samir, is
a godson of Gibran's.
Gibran died in New York City on April 10, 1931, at the age of 48.
The causes were cirrhosis of the liver and tuberculosis. The young emigrant
from Lebanon who came through Ellis Island in 1895 never became an American
citizen; he loved his birthplace too much. Before his death, Gibran expressed
the wish that he be buried in Lebanon. This wish was fulfilled in 1932, when
Mary Haskell and her sister Mariana purchased the Mar Sarkis Monastery in
Lebanon, which has since become the Gibran Museum. Written next to Gibran's
grave are the words "a word I want to see written on my grave: I am alive
like you, and I am standing beside you. Close your eyes and look around, you
will see me in front of you."[citation needed]
Gibran willed the contents of his studio to Mary Haskell. There she
discovered her letters to him spanning twenty-three years. She initially agreed
to burn them because of their intimacy, but recognizing their historical value
she saved them. She gave them, along with his letters to her which she had also
saved, to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library before she
died in 1964. Excerpts of the over six hundred letters were published in
"Beloved Prophet" in 1972.
Kahlil gibran has made some books like :
1. The
Madman ( You can Read Here )
2. The Garden of the Prophet
3. Spiritual
Sayings and other.
( abstracted from wikipedia and other )
If you Want to read kahlil Gibran quotes
about love and life, please click here ( update 20 Desember 2013 )