Broken Wings

Khalil Gibran is a Lebanese-American philosophical essayist, novelist, mystical poet, and artist. The works of Khalil Gibran are a synthesis of Eastern and Western cultures and occupy a special place in the history of Arab literature and twentieth-century philosophical thought. His distinctive trait is his tendency to penetrate the state of any reader, thereby revealing the universal synthesis and universalism in philosophical thinking and worldview. Precisely thanks to this, any reader today—whatever their culture or worldview—can find in his works reflections of their own ideas, principles, inner searches, and experiences.

The charm of Gibran’s creations is spellbinding. These are not prose, and not even what is usually called poetry. They are a prayerful striving for that lofty beauty of being, which alone embodies the highest truth of human history…