Khalil Gibran Quotes About Birds

Quotes about: Birds

• The bird has an honor that man does not have. Man lives in the traps of his abdicated laws and traditions; but the birds live according to the natural law of God who causes the earth to turn around the sun.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Law, Bird

• For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

  Khalil Gibran

  Communication, Wings, Space

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• He who defines his conduct by ethics imprisons his song-bird in a cage.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Art, Philosophy

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards.
  Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow.
  At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens.
  Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Heart, Eagles

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

• A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wings, Poetry, Bird

• My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Sheep, People

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

• The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dwelling Place, Wings, Bird

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