![]() ![]() Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,Īnd stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterĪnd treat those two impostors just the same If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim If you can dream-and not make dreams your master Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,Īnd yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,īut make allowance for their doubting too If you can keep your head when all about you Since we are living through trying times ourselves right now, it is worth revisiting this poem. And it has helped me sometimes in very depressed moments, and I hope it will do the same for you. If a poem can survive that, it’s a great poem. . . . ![]() ![]() framed and sold in the five-and-ten. . . . The moderns have made a bromide out of it. . . . And strangely enough, I truly love the poem “If”. . . . There are a few poems of Kipling which I like very much, both in form and in. By many accounts, it was probably her favorite poem: 2 “If–” by the British author, Rudyard Kipling: By her own admission she was “not an admirer of poetry” and found it “impossible to discuss.” 1 Even so, after saying this in a Q&A session, she went on to describe one of her favorite poems. Ayn Rand was a novelist and a connoisseur of fiction. ![]()
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