Virtue tested: "Have I not survived hunger and thirst, suffering, and mockery for the sake of the truth which heaven has awakened in my heart?

Love is all I can possess and no one can deprive me of it. Kahlil Gibran (Visions of the Prophet)

We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning. Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun, so shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.

A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.

The creator gives no heed to the critic unless he becomes a barren inventor.