Comprehensive information about Robert Burns including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. Robert Burns was a poet and songwriter widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland. This celebrated Scottish poet and lyricist was born at Alloway, near Ayr, in 1759. Burns' poem "A Red, Red Rose" is considered one of the greatest poems of all-time. This educational Robert Burns resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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When matters are desperate we must put on a desperate face. Go to Quote / Comment
Prudent, cautious self-control, is wisdom's root. Go to Quote / Comment
O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. Go to Quote / Comment
Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! Go to Quote / Comment
The great Creator to revere Must sure become the creature; But still the preaching cant forbear, And ev'n the rigid feature: Yet ne'er with wits profane to range Be complaisance extended; An atheist laugh's a poor exchange For deity offended. Go to Quote / Comment