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John Millington Synge

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

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

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Akiroq Brost

"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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Akiroq Brost

"Great songs don't grow on trees, yet lots of songs have been written on great trees."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music is the language of the heart, it makes our soul dance with joy."

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Akiroq Brost

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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Akiroq Brost

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music is the fertilizer for heart to bloom the flower of love and peace."

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Akiroq Brost

"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music opens the window of the soul to let the nectar of life come in."

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Akiroq Brost

"Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense."

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John Millington Synge
"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."

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John Millington Synge
"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."

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John Millington Synge
"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."

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John Millington Synge
"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."

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John Millington Synge
"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."

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John Millington Synge
"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."

Poetry

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

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John Millington Synge
"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."

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John Millington Synge
"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."

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

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