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John Millington Synge Quotes

Irish - Poet | April 16, 1871 - March 24, 1909

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.

John Millington Synge

Sea Myself Moment Men Me Moving

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

John Millington Synge

Knowledge Time Wind Direction Enough

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

John Millington Synge

Men Speak Think Fair Different Many

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

John Millington Synge

Life Beauty Character Art Simple

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

John Millington Synge

Language Irish Saint Patrick's Day

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.

John Millington Synge

Fog Small Waves Circle Lost Nothing

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.

John Millington Synge

Walk Day Me Waves Week Every Day

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

Walk Perfection Animal Simplicity

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

John Millington Synge

Son Price Where Against Only Horses

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.

John Millington Synge

Pain People Face Isolation Universe

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

Sea Day Man Said Now Will

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

Music Words You Said Will Give

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