“The difference between a prophet and a poet is that the prophet lives…” — Kahlil Gibran

“The difference between a prophet and a poet is that the prophet lives what he teaches—and the poet does not. He may write wonderfully of love, and yet not be loving.”

The gap between sung virtue and lived virtue · Remark to Mary Haskell while working on The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran

About Kahlil Gibran

6 January 1883–10 April 1931

Kahlil Gibran, born on 6 January 1883 in the mountain town of Bsharri, in what is now northern Lebanon, and dead on 10 April 1931 in New York City, became one of the most widely read literary figures of the twentieth century. He was a poet, prose writer, essayist, painter, draftsman, cultural critic, and immigrant…

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