Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling, If— (Rewards and Fairies, 1910)
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of distance run.
Rudyard Kipling, If— (Rewards and Fairies, 1910)
What it means
Time never gives back a minute, so Kipling calls it unforgiving. Make every second count toward the distance. Run the whole minute.
The source
"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of distance run." Rudyard Kipling said it in If— (Rewards and Fairies, 1910). Written in English: Rewards and Fairies, 1910.
"If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,"Original English (Rewards and Fairies, 1910), If— (Rewards and Fairies, 1910). Text read at gutenberg.org.
Who said it
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). English writer born in Bombay, author of The Jungle Book and the poem If—, first printed in Rewards and Fairies (1910).
Questions
- What does "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of distance run." mean?
- Time never gives back a minute, so Kipling calls it unforgiving. Make every second count toward the distance. Run the whole minute.
- Who said "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of distance run."?
- Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Source: If— (Rewards and Fairies, 1910).
- What is the original wording?
- If you can fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, (Original English (Rewards and Fairies, 1910)). Written in English: Rewards and Fairies, 1910.
- Is "Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds of distance run." on a shirt?
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