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Makars' Court is a courtyard in central Edinburgh, Scotland. It forms part of Lady Stair's Close, which connects the Lawnmarket with The Mound to the north, and is next to the Writers' Museum. Described as an "evolving national literary monument", the courtyard incorporates quotations from Scottish literature inscribed onto paving slabs. The quotations represent works in the languages used by Scots past and present: Gaelic, Scots, English, and Latin.

The Scots language term makar denotes an author or writer, though stressing their role as a "skilled and versatile worker in the craft of writing". Since 2002 the city of Edinburgh has appointed its own official Makar.

Makar Image Language Quotation Work quoted Date of work J. K. Annand Scots "Sing it aince for pleisure / Sing it twice for joy" 1970 John Barbour Scots "Fredome is a noble thing" The Brus 1375 James Boswell English "I rattled down the High Street in high elevation of spirits" London Journal 1762 James Bridie English "Who knows the heart of a man and what moves in that darkness?" Susannah and the Elders 1937 George Mackay Brown English "In the fire of images / Gladly I put my hand" "Hamnavoe" 1959 John Buchan English "We can only repay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to us" An Address to the people of Canada on the Coronation of George VI 1937 George Buchanan Latin "Populo enim jus est ut imperium cui velit deferat" (For it is right that the people confer power on whom they please) De Iure Regni apud Scottos 1579 Robert Burns Scots "Man to man the world o'er / Shall brithers be for a that" "Is There for Honest Poverty" 1795 Helen Cruickshank English "the spirit endures for ever" "Spring in the Mearns" 1935 David Daiches English "Bridge building is my vocation" Natural Light: Portraits of Scottish Writers 1985 Gavin Douglas Scots "mak it braid and plane / Kepand na sudron bot our awyn langage" Eneados 1513 William Dunbar Scots "The flesche is brukle, the Feynd is sle / Timor Mortis conturbat me" Lament for the Makars 1505 Dorothy Dunnett English "Where are the links of the chain joining us to the past?" Checkmate 1975 Robert Fergusson Scots "Auld Reikie, wale o ilka town" "Auld Reikie" James Allan Ford English "Sing out the silence, fill for ever and ever the emptiness" A Statue for a Public Place 1965 John Galt Scots "birr and smeddum" Annals of the Parish 1821 Robert Garioch Scots "in simmer, whan aa sorts foregether / in Embro to the ploy" "Embro to the Ploy" 1977 Neil M. Gunn English "Knowledge is high in the head but the salmon of wisdom swims deep" The Green Isle of the Great Deep 1944 Robert Henryson Scots "Blissed be sempill lyfe withoutin dreid" The Moral Fabillis 1480s Violet Jacob Scots "There's muckle lyin yont the Tay that's mair to me nor life" Flemington 1911George Campbell HayScots/ Gaelic"The hert's the compass toe the place that ye wad gae whan land ye lea. Cha chuir ceann is cridh' air iomrall thu Bi iomlan is bi beò" (Head and heart will not lead you astray, be complete and alive. '''')Collected Poems and Songs of George Campbell Hay (Deorsa Mac Iain Dheorsa)2000Willaim Sydney GrahamScots"What is the language using us for? "Implements in Their Places1977George BruceEnglish"The see trembles voiceless / It is the rare moment / when a word is sought"Pursuit. Poems1986 1998John MuirEnglish"I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness"Wilderness Essays1980 David Lyndsay Scots "Lat us haif the bukis necessare / To commoun weill" Ane Dialog betuix Experience and Ane Courteour 1554 Fionn MacColla English "my roots in the soil of Alba" The Albannach 1932 Hugh MacDiarmid Scots "Drums in the Walligate, pipes in the air / The wallopin' thistle is ill to bear" A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle 1926 Somhairle MacGill Eain Gaelic "nan robh againn Alba shaor / Alba co shinte ri ar gaol" (If we had Scotland free / Scotland equal to our love) "Am Boilseabhach" 1974 Robert McLellan Scots "The pouer to bigg a braw warld in his brain / Marks man the only craitur that can greit" The Carlin Moth 1947 Lachlan Mor MacMhuirich Gaelic "A Chlanna Cuinn cuimhnichibh / Cruas an àm na h iorghaile" (O Children of Conn, remember / Hardihood in time of battle) Harlaw Brosnachadh 1411 Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross Scots "Though tyrants threat, though Lyons rage and rore
Defy them all, and feare not to win out" Ane Godlie Dreame 1603 Màiri Mhòr nan Òran Gaelic "Cuimhnichibh gur sluagh sibh / Is cumaibh suas ur còir" (Remember that you are a people / And stand up for your rights) "Eilean a' Cheò" c. 1880 Naomi Mitchison English "Go back far enough and all humankind are cousins" Early in Orcadia 1987 Neil Munro English "And yet, and yet, this New Road will some day be the Old Road, too" The New Road 1914 Tom Scott Scots "Weird hou men maun aye be makin war / Insteid o things they need" Brand the Builder 1975 Sir Walter Scott English "This is my own, my native land!" "The Lay of the Last Minstrel" 1805 Nan Shepherd English "Its a grand thing to get leave to live" The Quarry Wood 1928 Sydney Goodsir Smith Scots "Bards hae sung o lesser luves than I o thee / Oh my great follie and my granderie" Under the Eildon Tree 1948 Iain Crichton Smith Gaelic and English "Let our three voiced country sing in a new world" "The Beginning of a New Song" 1999 Muriel Spark English "The Transfiguration of the Commonplace" The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1961 Robert Louis Stevenson English "There are no stars so lovely as Edinburgh street lamps" The Silverado Squatters 1883 Nigel Tranter English "You intend to bide here? To be sure. Can you think of anywhere better?" Columba 1987 Douglas Young Scots "He was eident, he was blye, in Scotland's cause" "For Willie Soutar" 1943