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DRAMATISTS > poet and dramatist > J M Synge
As a man...
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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
Source: Draft of a preface in Notebook 16. Quoted in: The Collected Works of J. M. Synge, vol. 1, Introduction (1962). [Some punctuation has been added to facilitate understanding.].
-- J M Synge, ( 1871-1909), Irish poet and dramatist; Intense and poetic in style, his works depict the bleak and tragic lives of Irish peasants and fisherfolk.