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John Millington Synge quotes: I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

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

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

John Millington Synge quotes: Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

John Millington Synge quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

John Millington Synge quotes: 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.

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 quotes: There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

John Millington Synge quotes: Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

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

John Millington Synge quotes: No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

John Millington Synge quotes: All the rare and royal namesWormy sheepskin yet retains

All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains

John Millington Synge quotes: What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

John Millington Synge quotes: A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

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 quotes: They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

John Millington Synge quotes: The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

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

John Millington Synge quotes: Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.