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
bent follow fool fools-and-foolishness natural
But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!).
concern impressed life politics
Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
china dawn outer road thunder
On the road to Mandalay, / Where the flyin'-fishes play, / An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer China 'crost the Bay!
quite
She was as immutable as the hills. But not quite so green.
salt
Oh, where are you going to, all you Big Steamers, / With England's own coal, up and down the salt seas?
above acceptable doubt people presence speaks throne
No doubt but ye are the People - your throne is above the King's. / Whoso speaks in your presence must say acceptable things.
fears liars worst
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears
beneath england greater grow none oak trees
Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.
jungle law true
Now this is the Law of the Jungle - as old and as true as the sky.
full smells
The place was packed as full of smells as a bale is of cotton.
blood lord paid price
If blood be the price of admiralty, / Lord God, we ha' paid in full!
fear jungle shadow sigh softly
Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow and a sigh - / He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear!
cosmos ego
You haf too much Ego in your Cosmos
last painted picture twisted
When the Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried.