The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. John Millington Synge Read Quote
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only? John Millington Synge Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. John Millington Synge Read Quote
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her. John Millington Synge Read Quote
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 Read Quote
At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island. John Millington Synge Read Quote
