A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
From John Millington Synge
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
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.
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
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.
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.
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.
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
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