The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything. John Millington Synge More Quotes by John Millington Synge More Quotes From John Millington Synge 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 comebackreadinggiving They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World. John Millington Synge championcheerworld Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal. John Millington Synge brutalpoetryhumans 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 sisterlordgiving 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. John Millington Synge writingmenchildren All the rare and royal names John Millington Synge royalnames 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 womanislandgriefdeath 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 willdaymansea 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 wordswillyoumusic 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 walksimplicityanimalpeople 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 limitthingsdangerousimagination
