“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.”

— Rudyard Kipling · Courage quote

“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.”

— RUDYARD KIPLING

Poet, novelist and Nobel laureate · 1865 – 1936

Rudyard Kipling was an English poet and storyteller born in Bombay, India, whose works include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901) and the poem 'If—' (1910), repeatedly voted among Britain's favourite poems. A journalist in India as a young man, he drew on the British Empire's landscapes and soldiers for his ballads and tales. In 1907 he became the first English-language writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, and still its youngest recipient.

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