I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
John Millington SyngeEvery 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 SyngeA translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
John Millington SyngeAt 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.
John Millington Synge