Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.
– Kahlil Gibran
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- Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us. – Kahlil Gibran
- Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints. – Henry James
- Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees. – Ged Thompson Poet
- Life writes the poetry, but it will always call for witnesses and scribes alike to tattoo its echoes upon the ghosts of trees. – Ged Thompson Poet
- Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. – Kahlil Gibran
- Verily the kindness that gazes upon itself in a mirror turns to stone,And a good deed that calls itself by tender names becomes the parent to a curse – Kahlil Gibran
- Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers. – Kahlil Gibran
- Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant. – Kahlil Gibran
- And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair – Kahlil Gibran
- Poems are word paintings. Poetry doesn’t belong to time. That’s why often you feel as if poems are speaking directly to you. – Salil Jha
- Why a writer writes? This question is trivial! The important question is this: What he writes? – Mehmet Murat ildan
- A writer’s pen depreciates with every word that it writes. Whereas she appreciates with every word that she writes. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Oh on my breast in days hereafterLight the earth should lie,Such weight to bear is now the air,So heavy hangs the sky.(Additional Poems, X) – AE Housman
- The one who is born of the earth, dreams of the sky. The one who is born of the sky, dreams of the earth. – C JoyBell C
- The earth reflects the sky and the sky meets the earth and, every now and then, if we’re lucky, we have a moment to see how small we are. – Ally Condie
- Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity. – Kahlil Gibran
- Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. – Kahlil Gibran
- He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine. – Kahlil Gibran
- Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. – Kahlil Gibran
- You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard. – Kahlil Gibran
- Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness. – Kahlil Gibran
- All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. – Kahlil Gibran
- What is word knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge? – Kahlil Gibran
- When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet. – Kahlil Gibran
- Stand together yet not too near together:For the pillars of the temples stand apart,And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow. – Kahlil Gibran
- An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. – Kahlil Gibran
- You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept. – Kahlil Gibran
- The house that does not comfort the needy is worthy of naught but destruction. – Kahlil Gibran
- To belittle, you have to be little. – Kahlil Gibran
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention. – Kahlil Gibran
- Not without a wound in the spirit shall I leave this city. – Kahlil Gibran
- My loneliness was born when men praised my talkative faults and blamed my silent virtues. – Kahlil Gibran
- Self is a sea boundless and measureless. – Kahlil Gibran
- You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams – Kahlil Gibran
- One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation. – Kahlil Gibran
- Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran
- Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination. – Kahlil Gibran
- Long ago you were a dream in your mother’s sleep, and then she awoke to give you birth. – Kahlil Gibran
- The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. – Kahlil Gibran
- What is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? – Kahlil Gibran