And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.
Weitere Zitate von Kahlil Gibran
Zum Autor"The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin."
"I deserted the world and sought solitude because I became tired of rendering courtesy to those multitudes who believe that humility is a sort of weakness, and mercy a kind of cowardice, and snobbery a form of strength."
"Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
"I too am my own forerunner, though I sit in the shadows of my trees and seem motionless."