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These are rotten, so you're the Queen
Of all are living, or have been.
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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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As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.
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Oh my grief, I've lost him surely. I've lost the only Playboy of the Western World.
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John Millington Synge
Born:
April 16, 1871
Died:
March 24, 1909
(aged 37)
Bio:
Edmund John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre.
Known for:
The Playboy of the Western World (1907)
Riders to the Sea
In the Shadow of the Glen (1905)
Deirdre of the Sorrows
The Well of the Saints (1904)
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