Tenderness!

"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestation of strenght and resolutions."

Gibran Khalil Gibran was born on January 6, 1883 in the lightest of north Lebanon and died on April 10, 1931 in New York.

He descended from a Maronite family, an Assyrian of Christian. Since his family was poor, he received an education from priests who visited him to teach him from the Bible and the Syriac and Arabic languages.

His mother followed his uncle, and immigrated to the USA on June 25, 1895, while his father decided to stay in Lebanon although he had nothing since the Ottoman authorities confiscated his family's property.

In his early teens, his drawings captured interested eyes of his teachers who introduced him to Boston artist, photographer and publisher Fred Holland Day. Gibran's drawings used on book covers and he held his first fine art exhibition in Boston in 1904.

Gibran Khalil Gibran travelled to Paris in 1908 to study art for two years. The excited travelling and endeavours and sights motivated him towards his other kinds of works though most of his first writing was in Arabic.

Gibran Khalil Gibran's works include:

Satan
My Soul
The Nay
The Prophet
The Madman
Broken Wings
The Wanderer
Sand and Foam
Spirit Rebellious
The Earth Gods
The Forerunner
I Believe In You
My Countrymen
The New Frontier
A Hymn to Liberty
A Tear and A Smile
Have Mercy On Me
Dead Are My People
Jesus the Son of Man
History and the Nation
Lazarus and his Beloved
Your Thought and Mine
The Garden of the Prophet...
and some other kinds of arts and poetry.

Gibran Khalil Gibran achieved some artworks found in prints and posters. These paintings, drawings, photos and sketches speak their way about Gibran's character.