Stevenson Robert Louis
Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of English literature. He was greatly admired by many authors, including Jorge Luis Borges, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov.
Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the Western canon.
“Wild horses wouldn't draw it from you?”
Stevenson Robert Louis
“I'll be as silent as the grave.”
Stevenson Robert Louis
“They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener;”
Stevenson Robert Louis
“[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!”
Stevenson Robert Louis