Person    | Male  Born 6/1/1883  Died 10/4/1931

Khalil Gibran

Categories: Art, Literature, Poetry

Countries: Lebanon, USA

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.

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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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