The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
John Millington Synge
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- 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.