John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge
Edmund John Millington Syngewas an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1871
CountryIreland
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.
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The freedom of the sand seemed to give a stronger spirit of revolt, and some of the animals were only caught after a dangerous struggle.
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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.
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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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The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
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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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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.