If any question why we died,
Tell them, because our fathers lied.

Rudyard Kipling

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Topic

World War I

Author

Rudyard Kipling

Source

Common Form

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

From

Asia Europe

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Common Form." The Years Between. Methuen and Co., 1919, I. 1.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "Common Form." Selected Poems of Rudyard Kipling. Penguin Classics, 2006, I. 1.

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Take up the White Man's burden —
Send forth the best ye breed —
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need.

Rudyard Kipling

The White Man's Burden

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Topic
Imperialism

Author

Rudyard Kipling
Source
The White Man's Burden
Medium
Poem
Language
English
Time
1899 1890s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The White Man's Burden." The Times, 4 Feb. 1899, I. 1.

Current Citation

Kipling, Rudyard. "The White Man's Burden." Rudyard Kipling: Stories and Poems, edited by Daniel Karlin. Oxford University Press, 2015, I. 1.

Another quote from the 1910s

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.

Rupert Brooke

The Soldier

More information about this quote
Topic
World War I

Author

Rupert Brooke
Source
The Soldier
Medium
Poem
Genre
War poetry
Language
English
Time
1914 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Brooke, Rupert. "The Soldier." 1914 and Other Poems. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1915, I. 1.

Current Citation

Brooke, Rupert. "The Soldier." The Poems of Rupert Brooke. Dover Publications, 2020, I. 1.

Another quote from 1919

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson

More information about this quote
Topic
Looking for love
Speaker
Stranger

Author

Sherwood Anderson
Source
Tandy
Medium
Short story
Language
English
Time
1919 1910s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small-Town Life. B. W. Huebsch, 1919.

Current Citation

Anderson, Sherwood. "Tandy." Winesburg, Ohio, edited by Marc K. Dudley. W. W. Norton & Company, 2023.