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The Broken Wings
The Broken Wings | Kahlil Gibran
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I was eighteen years of age when love opened my eyes with its magic rays and touched my spirit for the first time with its fiery fingers, and Selma Karamy was the first woman who awakened my spirit with her beauty and led me into the garden of high affection, where days pass like dreams and nights like weddings. Selma Karamy was the one who taught me to worship beauty by the example of her own beauty and revealed to me the secret of love by her affection; se was the one who first sang to me the poetry of real life.
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A romance, a tragedy, a commentary upon political and religious corruption, a condemnation of the oppression of women by patriarchal society, and a meditation upon spiritual love. "The Broken Wings" has the savour of the autobiographical, though how much is history and how much romanticised I'm unsure. The brief narrative is multilayered, metaphorical and allusive in the way of most of Gibran's writing, here laid over a more earthbound framework.

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“The poets and writers are trying to understand the reality of woman, but up to this day they have not understood the hidden secret of her heart because they look upon her from behind the sexual veil and see nothing but the externals: they look upon her through a magnifying glass of hatefulness and find nothing except weakness and submission.”

saresmoore Mmm, well said. 6y
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Kahlil and I took a much needed break in Mere Sands Nature Reserve this evening. We encountered a benchful of dragonflies, ducks, geese, herons and cormorrants, fungi and lots of trees, all drenched in the golden light of a late evening in West Lancashire... And, breathe...

TrishB Lovely 💕 6y
saresmoore Gorgeous. Sounds like it would be very restorative. 6y
DivineDiana Perfect! 6y
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“The cup does not entice the lips unless the wine's colour is seen through the transparent crystal.”

#metaphors

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"Those to whom love has not given wings cannot fly behind the cloud of appearances to see the magic world in which Selma's spirit and mine existed together in that sorrowfully happy hour. Those whom Love has not chosen as followers do not hear when Love calls. This story is not for them. Even if they should comprehend these pages, they would not be able to grasp the shadowy meanings which are not clothed in words and do not reside on paper."

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“Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.”

AppuNthebooks The picture brings to mind The French Lieutenant‘s Woman. I guess the quote is apt too, for Fowles‘ story. 6y
Bookwomble @AppuSam I haven't read the book and have only seen clips of the film, but, yes, I see what you mean 😊 6y
AppuNthebooks Oh, it‘s thoroughly 💔but a beautiful read. It was hard to revisit on film. 6y
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"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves."

DivineDiana Love this image. 💗 6y
Bookwomble @DivineDiana It's striking, isn't it? And it really seemed to fit Gibran's words. 6y
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I love these '70s Heinemann editions of Kahlil Gibran's works, which I'm slowly but surely collecting.

"The Broken Wings" was today's serendipitous find, which is looking well at home with its new shelf-mates. ?

Leftcoastzen Like your Bowie! And have to say it is such a pleasure to find a matched set the old fashioned way, just finding them in used bookstores .They are lovely. 6y
Bookwomble @Leftcoastzen It's a good pic, isn't it 😀 I know I could get these editions more quickly online but, as you say, the pleasure of just finding one I still need (of which there are about another 13) is irreplaceable. 6y
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