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."

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

"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."

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