John Millington Synge

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. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#again #day #drowned #going #man

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

#bilingual #different #fair #favourite #foreign

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

#give #music #poem #said #translation

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

— John Millington Synge

#depends #direction #enough #general #general knowledge

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

#art #article #artistic #beauty #character

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

#comes #give #give me #good #i

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#every #fully #good #nut #play

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#canoe #canvas #civilisation #exquisite #find

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

#clay #most #poetry #roots #strong

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

#blister #brow #confound #cramp #galling