What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

John Millington Synge · Riders to the Sea (1904)

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.

John Millington Synge · The source reads: “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.” · The Aran Islands (1907)

They're all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me.

John Millington Synge · Riders to the Sea (1904), Maurya

'A translation is no translation,' he said, 'unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.'

John Millington Synge

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“What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?”

“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.”

“They're all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me.”

“'A translation is no translation,' he said, 'unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.'”

“My nurse was my confidante. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her I poured out my many troubles.”

“The childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”