Kipling Quotes

• Desde el punto de vista de la literatura, el Sr. Kipling es un genio que deja caer sus aspiraciones. Desde el punto de vista de la vida, es un reportero que conoce la vulgaridad mejor de lo que nadie la ha conocido jamás.

  Oscar Wilde

  Writing, Views, Genius

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1012, Wordsworth Editions

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• Kipling, nieto de un predicador metodista, revela al evangelista de pacotilla con creciente claridad a medida que la juventud y sus ribaldries pasan y él vuelve a caer en sus fundamentos.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fall, Passing Away, Tin

  H. L. Mencken (1917). “A Book of Prefaces”

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• The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling. She travelled all over the world while sitting in her little room in an English village.

  Roald Dahl

  Reading, Book, People

  Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator”, p.160, Penguin

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• En cuanto a los escritores que me han influido son muchos. Hemingway, Chandler, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, William Goldman, Flannery O'Conner, Carson McCullers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, y tantos otros. De niño, Kipling y Edgar Rice Burroughs, y Robert E. Howard.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Kids, Scott Fitzgerald, Rays

  Fuente: thequietus.com

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• Léelo despacio, querida niña, debes leer a Kipling despacio. Fíjate bien dónde caen las comas para descubrir las pausas naturales. Es un escritor que usaba pluma y tinta. Levantó mucho la vista de la página, creo, miró por la ventana y escuchó a los pájaros, como hacen la mayoría de los escritores que están solos. Algunos no saben los nombres de los pájaros, aunque él sí. Su ojo es demasiado rápido y norteamericano. Piensa en la velocidad de su pluma. Por lo demás, qué espantoso y viejo primer párrafo.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Girl, Fall, Believe

  Michael Ondaatje (2011). “The English Patient”, p.94, Vintage

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• Elephants are my favourite creatures and have been since I was a boy and my mother read Kipling's The Elephant's Child to me. It was loving elephants so much that made we want to write my own story with an elephant at the centre and its bond with a child.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Mother, Children, Writing

  Source: www.altblackpool.co.uk

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• Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave?

  Richard Louv

  Reading, Book, Rivers

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.133, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Hace muchos años, Rudyard Kipling pronunció un discurso en la Universidad McGill de Montreal. Dijo una cosa sorprendente que merece ser recordada. Advirtiendo a los estudiantes contra una excesiva preocupación por el dinero, la posición o la gloria, dijo: "Algún día conoceréis a un hombre que no se preocupa por ninguna de estas cosas. Entonces sabréis lo pobres que sois".

  Halford Luccock

  Men, Years, Who Cares

  Halford Edward Luccock (1956). “Unfinished Business: Short Diversions on Religious Themes”

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• Cuando era pequeño, no tenía ningún cómic. Pero mi amigo tenía un baúl lleno de ellos, así que los cómics eran como caramelos para mí. Cuando me quedaba a dormir en su casa, devoraba todo lo que caía en mis manos. Sabía que la fiesta de pijamas iba a terminar, que volvería a mi casa y que sería Kipling.

  James Spader

  Crecer, Libro, Dormir

  Fuente: collider.com

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• Un momento para rezar "En tiempos de guerra y no antes, adoramos a Dios y al soldado. Pero en tiempos de paz y con todo arreglado, Dios es olvidado y el soldado menospreciado". -Rudyard Kipling

  Rudyard Kipling

  Prayer, War, Soldier

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• El punto álgido, por así decirlo, de la literatura socialista es W.H. Auden, una especie de Kipling sin agallas.

  George Orwell

  Agua, poesía, literatura

  The Road toWigan Pier cap. 11 (1937)

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• It may be that there is an afterlife and I'll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it. [...] To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.

  Stephen Fry

  Running, Distance, Stupid

  "La importancia de la incredulidad". Entrevista en Big Think, bigthink.com. 8 de diciembre de 2009.

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• During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

  George Orwell

  Art, Generations, Nine

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Will there never come a season Which shall rid us from the curse? Of a prose which knows no reason And an unmelodious verse: When the world shall cease to wonder At the genius of an Ass, And a boy's eccentric blunder Shall not bring success to pass: When mankind shall be delivered From the clash of magazines, And the inkstand shall be shivered Into countless smithereens: When there stands a muzzled stripling, Mute, beside a muzzled bore: When the Rudyards cease from Kipling And the Haggards Ride no more.

  James Kenneth Stephen

  Boys, World, Eccentric

  James Kenneth Stephen, “To R. K.”

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• One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.

  Tony Snow

  Names, Npr, White

  "You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. July 7, 2006.

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• An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own.

  Randall Jarrell

  Mistake, Tired, Intelligent

  "A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables" by Randall Jarrell, (pp. 116-117), 1962.

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• Kipling dijo que tanto el éxito como el fracaso son impostores, y todos deberíamos escuchar a Kipling, aunque sólo sea porque es probable que ninguno de nosotros conozca a nadie más que se llame Rudyard. Pero habiendo sido mordido en mi vida por las fauces tanto de la victoria como de la derrota, debo apresurarme a añadir que el éxito es al fracaso lo que el helado de nuez de mantequilla es a la muerte.

  Rupert Holmes

  Ice Cream, Victory And Defeat, Add

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• One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.

  Michael Ende

  Children, Doors, Numbers

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• Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising.

  George Orwell

  Imperialismo

  "Todo arte es propaganda: Ensayos críticos".

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• Cuando surja una idea, dedícale tiempo en silencio. Recuerda la idea de Keats de la Capacidad Negativa y el consejo de Kipling de "ir a la deriva, esperar y obedecer". Además de recopilar datos concretos, permítete soñar con la materialización de tu idea.

  Rose Tremain

  Dream, Writing, Data

  "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

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• My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

  Debbie Macomber

  Children, Wall, Names

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• I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book. Deep down, I've always wanted to write a book about a wild child and an elephant.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

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• Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.

  Cressida Cowell

  Niños, Libro, Lectura

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• Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.

  Grant Morrison

  Sense Of Humor, Reconstructing

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• He pedido mucho a mis emociones: ciento veinte cuentos. El precio era alto, a la altura de Kipling, porque había una gotita de algo, no sangre, no una lágrima, no mi semilla, sino yo más íntimamente que éstas, en cada relato, era lo que me sobraba. Ahora se ha ido y ahora soy como tú.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Creativity, Blood, Tears

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.2978, e-artnow

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