Lebanese American artist, poet, and writer.
Born in what is now Lebanon, emigrated as a young man with his family to US.
Best known for The Prophet, 1923, popular in the 60s.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
Khalil Gibran
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Stephanie Ford
The quotations are from Gibran's The Prophet. The tree is decorated with plas...
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