Boston: His classic work, written in English, is composed of
26 poetic essays.
Khalil, a Lebanese–American artist, philosopher and writer, was born in 1883 in a Maronite Christian town in what is now northern Lebanon. The family crossed the Atlantic and settled in Boston’s South End in mid–1895.
From his work Sand and Foam (1926):
“Half of what I say is meaningless,
But I say it, so that the other half may reach you.”