"I am a poet who composes what life proses, and who proses what
life composes."
Poet, philosopher, and artist, was born in Lebanon, a
land that has produced many prophets. The millions of Arabic-speaking peoples
familiar with his writings in that language consider him the genius of his age.
But he was a man whose fame and influence spread far beyond the Near East. His
poetry has been translated into more than twenty languages. His drawings and
paintings have been exhibited in the great capitals of the world. In the United
States, which he made his home during the last twenty years of his life, he
began to write in English.
-This quotation is from The Prophet's dust jacket, published by Knopf,
NY
