Kahlil Gibran on Marriage
I love reading Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. I don’t know where I got that book, but I had that since college. Black covers, a little tattered, yellowish-brown pages. But I love the drawings in the book, I wish I could sketch the same way. My book is published in June 1945.
I don’t know much about Kahlil Gibran either. All I know is that he was a great poet. So I just googled about his life. According to Wikipedia, Kahlil Gibran (6 January 1883 - 10 April 1931) is a Lebanese-American artist, poet and writer. He was born in Lebanon but raised in the USA. Ooops, same birthday with my brother, January 6th (1981). Since he had had no formal schooling in Lebanon, school officials placed him in a special class for immigrants to learn English. Gibran’s English teacher suggested that he Anglicise the spelling of his name (then Khalil) in order to make it more acceptable to American society. Kahlil Gibran was the result.
