Hugh MacDiarmid — Scottish Poet born on August 11, 1892, died on September 09, 1978

Christopher Murray Grieve, known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure. He is best known for his works written in 'synthetic Scots', or Lallans, a literary version of the Scots language that MacDiarmid himself developed... (wikipedia)

There are plenty of ruined buildings in the world but no ruined stones.
It is time we in Scotland put England in its proper place and instead of our leaning on England and taking inspiration from her, we should lean and turn to Europe, for it is there our future prosperity lies.
Our principal writers have nearly all been fortunate in escaping regular education.