Quotes by John Millington Synge - Page 1

All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains
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Names
Royal
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Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Poetry
Brutal
Humans
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No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
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Death
Men
Forever
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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Saint Patrick's Day
Ireland And The Irish
Language
Soothing
Irish
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The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
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Drama
Symphony
Writing
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
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Champion
Cheer
Lad
Playboy
Western
Western World
World
Young
Cheering
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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
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Apples
Nuts
Play
Speech
Apple
Fully
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Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.
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Autumn
Play
Should Have
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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
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Horse
Son
Thousand
Horses
Price
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
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Comeback
Give Me
Giving
Reading
Scholar
Writer
Blotting
Pen
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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
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Knowledge
Depends
Enough
General Knowledge
Islands
Wind
General
Curiously
Direction
Island
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A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
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Giving
Translations
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.
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Men
Going Out
Sea
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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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Poem
Translation
Unless
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Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
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Imagination
Dangerous
Humour
Destroy
Limit
Nourish
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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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Clay
Roots
Strong
Timber
Worms
Among
Surely
Wears
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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.
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Sister
Blight
Giving
Guts
Liver
Lord
Surly
Brow
Confound
Cramp
Lung
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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 / Playwright
Men
Favourite
Mean
Notion
Thinking
Bilingual
Languages
Fair
Foreign
Foreign Languages
Idioms
Topic
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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 / Playwright
Art
Beauty
Character
Islands
Medieval
Simple
Simple Life
Life Art Character
Unknown
Beauty Life Art
Almost
Article
Gives
Personal
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I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.
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Bird
Flower
Stars
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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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Said
Sea
Will
Now
Afraid
Man
Only
He
Day
Drowned
Soon
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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.
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Men
Civilisation
Exquisite
Moving
Moving Away
Primitive
Race
Rude
Satisfaction
Sea
Canoe
Model
Races
Served
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The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Eighty
Grief
Native
Passionate
Rage
Seems
Somewhere
Complaint
Contain
Island
Lurks
Personal
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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Absence
Animal
Heavy
Simplicity
Wild Animal
Agile
Boot
Wild
Points
Preserved
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Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill their stomachs selling judgments of the English law.
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Law
Pirate
World
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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.
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Journey
Men
Bruised
Heels
Islands
Weight
Naturally
Boot
Island
Good Deal
Guide
Portion
Threw
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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.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
War
Consciousness
Cry
Instant
Isolation
Mood
Pain
Seems
Universe
Wind
Face
Bare
Beings
Itself
Wars
Inner
Lay
Reveal
Seas
Winds
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A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Circles
Foam
Fog
Lost
Mist
Movement
Shore
Sight
Visible
Seen
Between
Came
Circle
First
Could
Curling
Further
Small
Line
Right
Waves
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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.
John Millington Synge / Playwright
Journey
Desolation
Exile
Hiking
Islands
Mass
Strange
Surf
Sweeping
Tumult
Week
Wet
Walk Me Day
Anywhere
Nearly
Round
Island
Passed
Strip
Waves
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
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Girl
House
Writing
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In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
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Family
Artist
Son
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As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.
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Men
Children
Writing
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