Rudyard Kipling

"Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul."

"Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul."

"It's clever, but is it Art?"

"At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done."

"Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie."

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves 'It's pretty, but is it Art?'"

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."