The Complete Works of Kahlil Gibran: All poems and short stories (Global Classics)

by Kahlil Gibran

And ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

it was she who had first sought and believed in him when he had been but a day in their city.

our love would not bind you nor our needs hold you.

When love beckons to you, follow

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?

But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship.

And I say that life is indeed darkness save when there is urge,

And all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, And all work is empty save when there is love; And when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another,