The Forerunner · His Parables and Poems

The Forerunner · His Parables and Poems
Authors
Gibran, Kahlil
Publisher
Knopf
Tags
middle eastern , poetry , philosophy
ISBN
9780307957771
Date
1900-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.61 MB
Lang
en
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You are your own forerunner, and the towers you have builded are but the foundation of your own giant-self. And that self too shall be a foundation."

"And I too am my own forerunner, for the long shadow stretching before me at sunrise shall gather under my feet at the noon hour. Yet another sunrise shall lay another shadow before me, and that also shall be gathered at another noon."

"Always have we been our own forerunners, and always shall we be. And all that we have gathered and shall gather shall be but seeds for fields yet unploughed. We are the fields and the ploughmen, the gatherers an the gathered.