Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.
Rudyard KiplingTag: man woman wild cat tame by cave himself walked
No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours.
Rudyard KiplingTag: writing writers childhood observation unhappiness
Among the young ravens driven to roost awhile on Graydon's ark was James Andrew Manallace - a darkish, slow northerner of a type that does not ignite, but must be detonated. ("Dayspring Mishandled")
Rudyard KiplingTag: temperment
His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation.
Rudyard KiplingSomething I owe to the soil that grew—
More to the life that fed—
But most to Allah who gave me two
Separate sides to my head.
What is a woman that you forsake her
And the hearth fire and the home acre
To go with that old grey widow-maker?
Tag: poetry
No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise;
Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes.
On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition
Rudyard KiplingTag: kipling
Hear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
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