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    A Tear And A Smile: “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
    A Tear And A Smile: “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
    A Tear And A Smile: “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
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    A Tear And A Smile: “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”

    By Kahlil Gibran

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    Khalil Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements. The group was presided by Khalil himself and was baptized Arrabitah, or “The League.” Generally, the Arabic literature of the beginning of the twentieth century was marked by the revolutionary ideas advanced by Arrabitah members as well as by other Arab intellectuals and literary men who felt the urgent need to revolutionize classic Arabic verse and prose. It was a growing urge to innovate and to break with old literary traditions and conventions. The current eventually helped to open new horizons such as the flourishing, in the second half of the twentieth century, of Arabic prose poetry and free verse. The Arrabitah experience was, actually, fundamental in the life of Khalil Gibran who was regarded as a literary rebel and a leading figure of the Arabic literary Renaissance in addition to his Oriental contributions to Western poetry and thought. Here we publish ‘A Tear And A Smile’.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherA Word To The Wise
    Release dateNov 5, 2013
    ISBN9781783945658
    A Tear And A Smile: “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
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    Kahlil Gibran

    Poet, philosopher, and artist, Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931) was born in Lebanon. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age and he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the country of his birth. His poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages and 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.

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      A Tear And A Smile - Kahlil Gibran

      Kahlil Gibran - A Tear and a Smile

      Kahlil Gibran was one of a number of Arab intellectuals and writers who lived in the United States in the beginning of the twentieth century and who had a great influence on the development of modern Arabic literature through the exploration of Western literary movements. The group was presided by Khalil himself and was baptized Arrabitah, or The League. Generally, the Arabic literature of the beginning of the twentieth century was marked by the revolutionary ideas advanced by Arrabitah members as well as by other Arab intellectuals and literary men who felt the urgent need to revolutionize classic Arabic verse and prose. It was a growing urge to innovate and to break with old literary traditions and conventions.  The current eventually helped to open new horizons such as the flourishing, in the second half of the twentieth century, of Arabic prose poetry and free verse. The Arrabitah experience was, actually, fundamental in the life of Khalil Gibran who was regarded as a literary rebel and a leading figure of the Arabic literary Renaissance in addition to his Oriental contributions to Western poetry and thought.  Here we publish ‘A Tear And A Smile’.

      INDEX OF CONTENTS

      THE CREATION

      TWO INFANTS

      THE HOUSE OF FORTUNE

      A POET'S DEATH IS HIS LIFE

      A POET'S DEATH IS HIS LIFE

      THE CRIMINAL

      SONG OF FORTUNE

      SONG OF THE RAIN

      THE POET

      LAUGHTER AND TEARS

      VISION

      TWO WISHES

      YESTERDAY AND TODAY

      LEAVE ME, MY BLAMER

      THE BEAUTY OF DEATH

      A POET'S VOICE

      THE LIFE OF LOVE

      SONG OF THE WAVE

      PEACE

      THE PLAYGROUND OF LIFE

      THE CITY OF THE DEAD

      THE WIDOW AND HER SON

      SONG OF THE SOUL

      SONG OF THE FLOWER

      SONG OF LOVE

      SONG OF MAN

      BEFORE THE THRONE OF BEAUTY

      A LOVER'S CALL

      THE PALACE AND THE HUT

      KAHLIL GIBRAN – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      THE CREATION

      The God separated a spirit from Himself and fashioned it into Beauty. He showered upon her all the blessings of gracefulness and kindness. He gave her the cup of happiness and said, Drink not from this cup unless you forget the past and the future, for happiness is naught but the moment. And He also gave her a cup of sorrow and said, Drink from this cup and you will understand the meaning of the fleeting instants of the joy of life, for sorrow ever abounds.

      And the God bestowed upon her a love that would desert he forever upon her first sigh of earthly satisfaction, and a sweetness that would vanish with her first awareness of flattery.

      And He gave her wisdom from heaven to lead to the all-righteous path, and placed in the depth of her heart and eye that sees the unseen, and created in he an affection and goodness toward all things. He dressed her with raiment of hopes spun by the angels of heaven from the sinews of the rainbow. And He cloaked her in the shadow of confusion, which is the dawn of life and light.

      Then the God took consuming fire from the furnace of anger, and searing wind from the desert of ignorance, and sharp- cutting sands from the shore of selfishness, and coarse earth from under the feet of ages, and combined them all and fashioned Man. He gave to Man a blind power that rages and drives him into a madness which extinguishes only before gratification of desire, and placed life in him which is the spectre of death.

      And the god laughed and cried. He felt an overwhelming love and pity for Man, and sheltered him beneath His guidance.

      TWO INFANTS

      A prince stood on the balcony of his palace addressing a great multitude summoned for the occasion and said, Let me offer you and this whole fortunate country my congratulations upon the birth of a new prince who will carry the name of my noble family, and of whom you will be justly proud. He is the new bearer of a great and illustrious ancestry, and upon him depends the brilliant future of this realm. Sing and be merry! The voices of the throngs, full of joy and thankfulness, flooded the sky with exhilarating song, welcoming the new tyrant who would affix the yoke of oppression to their necks by ruling the weak with bitter authority, and exploiting their bodies and killing their souls. For that destiny, the people were singing and drinking ecstatically to the heady of the new Emir.

      Another child entered life and that kingdom at the same time. While the crowds were glorifying the strong and belittling themselves by singing praise to a potential despot, and while the angels of heaven were weeping over the people's weakness and servitude, a sick woman was thinking. She lived in an old, deserted

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