The poem is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son, John. If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you;If you can trust yourself when all men ...

Some lines never lose their power, no matter how many years pass. Today’s Quote of the Day by Rudyard Kipling comes from his iconic poem If—, a piece of literature that has inspired generations with ...

Then the poem exclaims, “Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, / And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!” “If–” by Rudyard Kipling was recently voted “the most beloved poem in Great ...