Quotes by John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge

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.

Circles

Fog

Sight

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.

Going Out

Men

Sea

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

Giving

Translations

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.

Hiking

Islands

Journey

All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains

Names

Royal

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.

Children

Men

Writing

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.

Islands

Journey

Men

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

Brutal

Humans

Poetry

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.

Law

Pirate

World

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.

Art

Beauty

Character

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Apples

Art

Artist

Autumn

Beauty

Bird

Brutal

Champion

Character

Cheer

Children

Circles

Clay

Comeback

Death

Drama

Enough

Family

Flower

Fog

Forever

Girl

Giving

Going Out

Hiking

Horse

House

Humans

Ireland And The Irish

Islands

Journey

Language

Law

Lord

Mean

Men

Moving

Names

Nuts

Pain

Pirate

Play

Poetry

Race

Reading

Roots

Royal

Sea

Should Have

Sight

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Quotes by John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge

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.

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.

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

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.

All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains

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.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

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.

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.

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