Author: John Millington Synge

Quotes

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

- John Millington Synge

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

- John Millington Synge

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

- John Millington Synge

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

- John Millington Synge

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

- John Millington Synge

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

- John Millington Synge

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

- John Millington Synge

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