If By R.K.

I was lucky enough to travel from the north to the south of India during a charity race this year and on passing through Mysore, the verses of If came to me. It was my grandfather, a great traveller if ever there was one, who introduced me to this poem when I was a child. This lesson needs to be repeated every day in order to become what we are, David Frossard, artistic director of Parfums Frapin.