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
dog horse art
We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yelk of an addled egg. We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart, But the devil whoops, as he whooped of old; It's clever, but is it art?
heart sea fishing
Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart.
lure
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
speak knows know-how
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
men soul body
Body and spirit I surrendered whole To harsh instructors and received a soul... If mortal man could change me through and through From all I was What may the God not do?
people birth terror
Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth.
rage score scholar
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
baby cat moon
The cat will keep his side of the bargain. He will kill mice, and he will be kind to babies when he is in the house, just so long as they do not pull his tail too hard. But when he has done that, and between times, and when the moon gets up and night comes, he is the Cat that walks by himself, and all places are alike to him. Then he goes out to the Wet Wild Woods or up on the Wet Wild trees or on the Wet Wild roofs, waving his wild tail and walking by his wild lone.
time flower eye
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die
fashion costumes satan
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.
men ships east
Ship me somewhere east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raisea thirst.
women pride scare
When the Hymalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside. But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail, For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
heart men magic
The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.
knows
Every woman knows all about everything.