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John Millington Synge

John Millington Synge

Irish Poet

Born: Apr 16, 1871

Died: Mar 24, 1909

Every First Give Good Me Walk

Related authors: Eavan Boland Oliver Goldsmith Patrick Kavanagh Seamus Heaney Thomas Moore William Allingham William Butler Yeats

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it. John Millington Synge

Dangerous Imagination Humour Destroy Most Limit Which Nourish Things

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. John Millington Synge

Death Woman Grief Somewhere Rage Every Complaint Seems Contain Over Island Passionate Years Personal Native Eighty Whole Keen Lurks

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

Son Thousand Only Horses Price Where Against

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

Time Knowledge Wind Enough General Direction General Knowledge Island Curiously Depends

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

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

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. John Millington Synge

Good Man Natural Walk First Few Guide Boot Follow Threw Bruised Could Weight Hours Learned Deal Island Does Any After Heels Naturally Good Deal Portion

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

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