John Millington Synge Quotes

John Millington Synge — Irish Poet born on April 16, 1871, died on March 24, 1909

Edmund John Millington Synge was 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... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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 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

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