#john synge

[oceancentury]

"And here's John Synge himself that rooted man, ‘Forgetting human words,' a grave deep face" - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). John Millington Synge (1871-1909) by John Butler Yeats (1839-1922), c. 1905/1907.

[beware-herebedragons]

Now there is no dancing or singing in this place at all, and most the young people is growing up and going to America.

John Synge, Prose

[beware-herebedragons]

The intense insular clearness one sees only in Ireland, and after rain, was throwing out every ripple in the sea and sky, and every crevice in the hills beyond the bay.

John Synge, The Aran Islands

[anneisalwaysangry]

If I was your wife, Christy Mahon, the way you'd see I was a great hand at coaxing bailiffs, or coining funny nick-names for the stars of night."

Pegeen Mike, "The Playboy of the Western World" by John Synge