I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with m… - Robert Burns

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I want someone to laugh with me, someone to be grave with me, someone to please me and help my discrimination with his or her own remark, and at times, no doubt, to admire my acuteness and penetration

Robert Burns

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Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) was a poet and pioneer of the Romantic movement and after his death became an important source of inspiration to the founders of both liberalism and socialism. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland.

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Also Known As: Bard of Ayrshire

Alternative Names: Robbie Burns • Rabbie Burns • Scotland's favorite son • Ploughman Poet • The Bard • National poet of Scotland • Robden of Solway Firth

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The voice of Nature loudly cries, And many a message from the skies, That something in us never dies.

We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.

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