Tao Te Ching

“Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgement Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, when two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!”

— Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936 CE
Greatest—in-English—short-story writer

from The Ballad of East and West