The Prophet
Twenty-six prose poems delivered by a departing prophet, dismissed by critics for a century and carried around for just as long by readers who needed them.
Twenty-six prose poems on love, marriage, children, work and death, delivered by a departing prophet to the people of a fictional city. Published in 1923, never out of print since, and dismissed by critics for as long as it has been carried around by readers who needed it.
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Maria Popova
Two and a half millennia after Lao Tzu, and a century before Le Guin and Berry, Kahlil Gibran (January 6, 1883–April 10, 1931) — another philosopher-poet of the highest order and most timeless hold — addressed the relationship between silence, solitude, and self-knowledge in a portion of his 1923 classic The Prophet (public library).
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