“you can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?”
Quote by Khalil Gibran
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This influential work presents twenty-six chapters of reflective prose poetry, each addressing fundamental themes such as love, marriage, children, joy, sorrow, friendship, self-knowledge, time, freedom, and death. The book is structured as a series of discourses delivered by a prophet character who is departing his homeland after years of exile. Through the prophet's wisdom, Gibran explores the complexities of human emotions and relationships with poetic insight and spiritual depth. The work has achieved widespread global readership and has been translated into dozens of languages since its original publication. more
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