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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
— John Millington Synge
Tags: soothing, irish, like, language

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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.
— John Millington Synge
Tags: most, strong, roots, poetry
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
Tags: simple, art, beauty, life
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
Tags: destroy, things, dangerous, imagination
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
Tags: island, grief, woman, death
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
— John Millington Synge
Tags: cheering, playboy, young, champion, world
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