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"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
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"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
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"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
Experience
"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
"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."
Man
"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."
Time
"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."
World
"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."
People
"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."
People
"A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam."
Travel
"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
Soothing
"A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it."
Music
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