John Millington Synge
Poet
1871-04-16
Quotes by John Millington Synge
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A translation is no translation,' he said, —unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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A translation is no translation,' he said, —unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again.
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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
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In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
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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.
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