A Tear and a Smile
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A Tear and a Smile contains 56 parables, stories, and poems. It is considered the most important edition to the canon of this Gibran. Khalil Gibran was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and writer. As a young man he emigrated with his family to the United States where he studied art and began his literary career. His Romantic style was at the heart of a renaissance in modern Arabic literature he is still celebrated as a literary hero.
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“I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that saddens makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile”.The aforementioned clause in the book summarizes Khalil Gibran's perspective of life, it is always a balance between two sides. He continues by saying, “A tear to purify my heart and give me understanding of life's secrets and hidden things. A smile to draw me nigh to the sons of my kind and to be a symbol of my glorification of the gods”. The book is about the duality of life and the more forgotten aspects of life that keeps the balance. Additional tales of life and its injustice makes it a poem worth of a story.
