Source identified
Read & copy the quotation
“Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.”
- Source
- The Prophet
- Date
- 1923
- Local voice
- Fictional character · Almustafa
Meaning of “Your hearts know in silence the secrets of…”
In the work’s poetic frame, inward knowledge exists before it is fully verbalized; the line values listening closely to one’s own interior understanding without claiming that intuition is automatically infallible.
Where does it come from?
The Prophet, section “Self-Knowledge.” A man asks Almustafa to speak about self-knowledge, and Almustafa answers with this line before describing the heart’s knowledge and the self as a boundless sea. The represented wording is the 1923 text preserved by Wikisource/Project Gutenberg #58585.
Why the local voice matters
Almustafa answers a man who asks about Self-Knowledge in The Prophet; the line is part of the work’s framed poetic discourse rather than unframed autobiography.
