Robert Burns skót költő, dalszerző.
Skócia nemzeti költőjének tartják. Ő a scots nyelven alkotott költők közül a legismertebb, habár sok munkája angolul is megjelent. Skót kulturális ikonként ünnepelték a 19. és a 20. század folyamán Skóciában és a világon szétszóródott skót közösségekben egyaránt.
A romantika korszakának egyik legjelentősebb képviselője. Halála után a liberalizmus és a szocializmus alapjait letevők számára is inspirációt jelentettek írásai. Szabadkőműves volt.
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„Az ihlettel írt lapokat, molyok, rágjátok össze;
csak ne az aranyos kötést, arra gazdája büszke.”
Kálnoky László
Idézetek verseiből, Az emberirtást gyűlölöm
“But to see her was to love her,
Love but her, and love forever.”
Bonny Lesley.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Változat: To see her is to love her,
And love but her forever;
For Nature made her what she is,
And never made anither!
My Heart's in the Highlands, st. 1
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
“The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley”
To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785)
Forrás: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Kontextus: The best laid schemes o' mice and men
Gang aft a-gley;
And leave us naught but grief and pain
For promised joy.
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Forrás: Robert Burns
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
Reported as attributed to Burns but unverified in Suzy Platt (ed.), Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the Congressional Research Service (Washington, DC : Library of Congress 1989) http://www.bartleby.com/73/172.html
Disputed
Forrás: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever, st. 2
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
Forrás: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
Kontextus: But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met—or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
To a Mouse, st. 7 (1785)
Forrás: Collected Poems of Robert Burns
“Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd…”
Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)
Változat: Some books are lies frae end to end.
“Oh would some power the giftie gie us, To see ourselves as others see us.”
To a Louse, st. 8 (1786) http://www.poetry-online.org/burns_to_a_louse.htm
Változat: O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us
Forrás: The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns
Kontextus: O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
What airs in dress an' gait wad lea'e us
An' ev'n Devotion
“Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!”
To a Mouse, st. 1 (1785)
Kontextus: Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
“What 's done we partly may compute,
But know not what 's resisted.”
Address to the Unco Guid.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“As Tammie glow'red, amazed, and curious,
The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.”
Forrás: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 143
The Rights of Woman, st. 1 (1792)
My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing, chorus (1792)
“Lay the proud usurpers low!
Tyrants fall in every foe!
Liberty's in every blow—
Let us do or die!”
Scots Wha Hae, st. 5 (1794)
“When chill November's surly blast
Made fields and forests bare.”
Man was made to Mourn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
