John Millington Synge

A translation is no translation,_ he said, __nless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

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

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.

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

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