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
names royal
All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains
stars flower bird
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.
drama writing symphony
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
poetry brutal humans
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
horse son thousand
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
strong roots clay
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.
wind islands enough
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
men islands high-heels
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.
children men expression
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.
moving men race
It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.
humour nourish
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
along irish-dramatist music unless
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
complaint contain death eighty keen lurks native passionate personal rage seems somewhere
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.
irish-dramatist man soon
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.