'A translation is no translation unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.'
Quotes by John Millington Synge
When I was sitting writing 'The Shadow of the Glen' I got more aid than any learning would have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servant girls in the kitchen.
(Preface to The Playboy of the Western World)