Work is love made visible.
Kahlil Gibran The Prophet, On Work (1923)
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When and why it was written
- When
- From The Prophet, published in 1923.
- Why
- Almustafa is asked to speak of work.
What it means
Gibran's line turns labour into a form of care that others can see. Bread baked with love feeds more than bread baked with indifference.
It asks less about what work we do than about how we do it.
Our reading of the passage cited above, not a quotation from a commentary.
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