Thoughts & meditations. Kahlil Gibran. 1971.

This volume of writings by Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese mystic and author of The Prophet, contains examples of three aspects of his genius. There is the impassioned fighter against politics, for Gibran the embodiment of corruption, injustice and ignorance. In a series of evocative allegories he imagines, against a background of the evils of modern society, the world as it might be if it were governed by reason and understanding. There is the poet of love, whose wonderful responsiveness to the beauties of nature is expressed in sensuous and delicate prose and verse.