2007-03-12 17:53:20 · 7 answers · asked by danster 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
East is East and West is West and ne're the twain shall meet
Ere earth and sky keep company, at God's great Judgement seat......Rudyard Kipling Best wishes
2007-03-12 18:01:32 · answer #1 · answered by tylernmi 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rudyard Kipling. The idea is an old one but stated differently here than it is in the Bible. Kipling basically says you can't find the place where east ends and the west begins or vice versa while the Bible describes it (...as far as the east is from the west) as a comparison to how far God separates us from our own sin. In the Bible the focus is more on the sin part of the comparison and the east/west part is only used to make the point. Essentially the idea is that east and west are intrinsically separated, permanently, forever.
2007-03-12 19:24:14 · answer #2 · answered by RenaMac 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This saying is part of the refrain of “The Ballad of East and West,” a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
2007-03-12 19:11:08 · answer #3 · answered by sudoku_puzzles_enigmas 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This saying is part of the refrain of “The Ballad of East and West,” a poem by Rudyard Kipling.
2007-03-12 17:57:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rudyard Kipling.
2007-03-12 18:23:56 · answer #5 · answered by fra59e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mark Twain.
2007-03-12 18:01:39 · answer #6 · answered by fredrick z 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is a fairly modern author i think. but it is unoriginal if it is a modern author, because the bible uses the metaphor. something like "as far as the east is from the west", and then he describes something as being really far apart.
2007-03-12 17:57:43 · answer #7 · answered by the blue hat 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋