What did Robert Burns mean by: The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, The man’s the gowd for a’ that. Robert Burns Poet · Scotland Copy
+ Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O’er a’ the ills o’ life victorious. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Achievement, Happiness, Triumph, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Beauty, Devotion, Love, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ The voice of Nature loudly cries,And many a message from the skies,That something in us never dies. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Immortality, Messages, Nature, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Robert Burns, Appearance, Class, Education, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us! Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Perspective, Reflection, Self-awareness, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ My heart is sair-I dare na tell, My heart is sair for Somebody. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Longing, Love, Pain, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ Suspicion is a heavy armor and with its weight it impedes more than it protects. Author, December 22, 2023December 29, 2024, Robert Burns, Impediment, Protection, Suspicion, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
+ All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath’d with nodding corn. Author, December 22, 2023December 28, 2024, Robert Burns, Abundance, Celebration, Harvest, 0 Robert Burns Poet · Scotland
If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much use for it. Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I don’t understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it’s a mind-altering possibility. Jeanette Winterson Author · England