Written work
Sand and Foam
Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms
A book of aphorisms and miniature parables, many translated or reworked from his Arabic notebooks, on truth, love, silence, generosity and the irony of the human condition. One of its lines ('Half of what I say is meaningless…') was adapted by John Lennon in the song 'Julia' (1968).
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English
Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms
The Conscious LibrarySand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms
Alfred A. Knopf, 1926
Primera edición; texto en Wikisource en inglés.
Español
Arena y espuma
Editorial Galerna, 1991
ISBN 9789505562497
Kahlil Gibran
Arena y espuma
The Conscious Library
Other works by Kahlil Gibran
- Music (A Profile of the Art of Music) · 1905
- Nymphs of the Valley · 1906
- Spirits Rebellious · 1908
- The Broken Wings · 1912
- A Tear and a Smile · 1914
- The Madman · 1918
- The Processions · 1919
- Twenty Drawings · 1919
- The Tempests · 1920
- The Forerunner · 1920
- The New and the Marvelous · 1923
- The Prophet · 1923
- Jesus, the Son of Man · 1928
- The Earth Gods · 1931
- The Wanderer · 1932
- The Garden of the Prophet · 1933
- Prose Poems · 1934
- A Treasury of Kahlil Gibran · 1951
- Thoughts and Meditations · 1960
- A Self-Portrait · 1959
- Beloved Prophet · 1972
- Lazarus and His Beloved · 1973
- Blue Flame: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran to May Ziadah · 1979
Sources
- Wikisource en inglés: Gibran, Kahlil, Sand and Foam: A Book of Aphorisms (Nueva York: Knopf, 1926).
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