Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 December 1865
CityMumbai, India
life falling-in-love sight
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.
kind cowardice worst
Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
birthday long youth
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.
morning lost-love kissing
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!
money lying ifs
But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.
science self views
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
rose bud fit
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows...
freedom fall ifs
What stands if freedom fall?
death alive ginger
'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.
heart eye sea
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.
blue hands sea
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.
son men white-man
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.
lovely world care
The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
fire water return
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!