“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind”

Rudyard Kipling

В вольном переводе: Слова – это, конечно, самое мощное лекарство(наркотик?), используемое человечеством.

(Сэр) Джозеф Редьярд Киплинг — английский писатель, поэт и новеллист.
Его лучшими произведениями считаются «Книга джунглей» (The Jungle Book), «Ким» (Kim), а также многочисленные стихотворения. В 1907 году Киплинг становится первым англичанином, получившим Нобелевскую премию по литературе. В этом же году он удостаивается наград от университетов Парижа, Страсбурга, Афин и Торонто; удостоен также почётных степеней Оксфордского, Кембриджского, Эдинбургского и Даремского университетов.

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in India, which inspired much of his work.
Kipling’s works of fiction include The Jungle Book (1894), Kim (1901), and many short stories, including “The Man Who Would Be King” (1888). His poems include “Mandalay” (1890), “Gunga Din” (1890), “The Gods of the Copybook Headings” (1919), “The White Man’s Burden” (1899), and “If—” (1910). He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story;[3] his children’s books are classics of children’s literature, and one critic described his work as exhibiting “a versatile and luminous narrative gift”.
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James said: “Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known.” In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date.He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and on several occasions for a knighthood, both of which he declined.