It is among a dozen or so I have committed to memory. Lewis Carrol's Jabberwocky, Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening and Edwin Arlington Robinson's Richard Cory are a few of my other favorites - all for very different reasons. Poe's The Bells is another favorite - also for different reasons than the others.
The poem IF sustained me in my youth as no other poem did. It helped me find my way as a fatherless child. I will always see Kipling as a friend when I needed one. I cannot think of a single published work of his that I have not read - and he published a great deal.
When you complain, ur friends roll their eyes and ur enemies rejoice
"Because I SAY I am" is a todler's tantrum, not "science"
You cannot betray me - only yourself, to me.
Who cuts off your dick is not a friend
An opinion you won't defend is not your own
Humanity's Law of the Jungle: Survival NOT of the fittest, but of the tribe
When peeing in the pool, stand on the edge
If gender is not sex, why should a gender claim change what sex you shower with?