Kahlil Gibran - Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden - Washington, D.C. United States of America
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N 38° 55.229 W 077° 03.681
18S E 321296 N 4309972
Located along the westbound side of Massachusetts Avenue, there is no parking nearby.
Waymark Code: WM1480J
Location: District of Columbia, United States
Date Posted: 05/11/2021
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The Kahlil Gibran Memorial Garden is a public garden located at 3100 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C., "within a wooded ravine known as Woodland-Normanstone Park". At its center are a bronze sculpture of the Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist Kahlil Gibran by Gordon Kray and a star-shaped fountain surrounded by limestone benches engraved with multiple quotes of Gibran.
Text on monument: Kahlil Gibran's legacy is the powerful simplicity of his words which continue to inspire those who long for peace, search for love, and strive for justice.
Quotes on the monument
"Work is love made visible"
"I love you my brother whoever you are whether you worship in your church, kneel in your temple or pray in your mosque You and I are children of one faith fingers of the loving hand of one supreme being a hand extended to all."
"life without freedom is like a body without a soul and freedom without thought is confusion"
"That which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space"
"Do not the spirits who dwell into ether envy man his pain"
"We live only to discover beauty all else is a form of waiting"
"We extract your elements to make cannons and bombs but out of our elements you create lilies and roses how patient you are earth and how merciful!"
"When you love you should not say god is in my heart but rather I am in the heart of god"
"Think of me when you see the sun coming down towards its setting spreading its red garment upon the mountain"