"THE MADMAN – HIS PARABLES & POEMS" are words of wisdom from the poet-madman which is inspiring and soul-searching. TABLE OF CONTENTS The Madman: His Parables And Poems Sketches & Paintings of Kahlil Gibran Inspirational Quotes Excerpt: "You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen,–the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives…" (The Madman) Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) was a Lebanese-American artist, poet, and philosopher. Regarded as a literary and political rebel, his romantic style was at the heart of the renaissance in modern Arabic literature.