Quote#Poetry
Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
Quote byKahlil Gibran · 1883–1931
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Jesus, The Son of Man (1928), Nicodemus The Poet, The Youngest Of The Elders In The Sanhedrim: On Fools And Jugglers.
English (original)
Am I less man because I believe in a greater man? The barriers of flesh and bone fell down when the Poet of Galilee spoke to me; and I was held by a spirit, and was lifted to the heights, and in midair my wings gathered the song of passion. And when I dismounted from the wind and in the Sanhedrim my pinions were shorn, even then my ribs, my featherless wings, kept and guarded the song.
— Kahlil Gibran
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