I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Robert Burns enriched Scottish song with his genius and is mainly responsible for the rich treasure house of song that we enjoy… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
“Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Robert Burns was never called Rabbie or Robbie—though he did occasionally call himself Spunkie.” — John Lloyd Copy Share Image
And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among the working classes. Now and again… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Robert Burns in his splendid indifference to rank, and Whitman in his glorification of common things, have points of kinship with him.… — Sister Nivedita Copy Share Image
There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
“She offers me a bull’s-eye sweet, which she’s stashed in her apron pocket with a half-dozen half-smoked Afton butts—a mix of flavors… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“It's 'If a body meet a body coming through the rye'!" old Phoebe said. "It's a poem. By Robert Burns." "I know… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
For in the works of Robert Burns we see the whole cosmos of man's experience and emotion, from zenith to nadir, from… — Len G. Murray Copy Share Image
