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
draw god sees separate shall
And, each in his separate star, / Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of things as they are!
rio roll
And I'd like to roll to Rio / Some day before I'm old!
people shadow ends
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
war father lied
If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied.
san-francisco bay-area drawbacks
San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
travel home men
All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
triumph disaster
Both triumph and disaster are impostors.
writing history stories
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.
son men success-and-failure
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
insulting dialect language
The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth
nice thinking sea
All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They: But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way, You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!
strong children good-luck
Good luck go with you, O Chief of the Wolves. And good luck and strong white teeth go with noble children that they may never forget the hungry in this world.
dream masters ifs
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.
india sun
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.