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Sorley MacLean
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“Time, the deer, is in the wood of Hallaig ("Tha tìm, am fiadh, an coille Hallaig")”
Sorley MacLean (1911–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe Mull had much to do with my poetry: its physical beauty, so different from Skye’s, with the terrible imprint of the clearances on it, made it almost intolerable for a Gael.”
Sorley MacLean (1911–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he Celtic Twilightists achieved the remarkable feat of attributing to Gaelic poetry the very opposite of every quality which it actually has.”
Sorley MacLean (1911–1996) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sorley MacLean, 1939, quoted in Cheape, Hugh (2016). "'A mind restless seeking': Sorley MacLean's historical research and the poet as historian
“My obsession was the preservation of the Gaelic language so that there would be people left in the world who could hear its great songs as they really were. No poetry could be translated, still less could song poetry, and the great language of Gaelic song made me fanatical about the beauty of the Gaelic language and its astonishing ability to indicate shades and positions of emphasis with natural inversions and the use of particles.”
Sorley MacLean (1911–1996) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sorley MacLean, 1982, quoted in Krause, Corinna. Eadar Dà Chànan: Self-Translation, the Bilingual Edition and Modern Scottish Gaelic Poetry
“The whole prospect of Gaelic appals me, the more I think of the difficulties and the likelihood of its extinction in a generation or two. A ... language with ... no modern prose of any account, no philosophical or technical vocabulary to speak of, no correct usage except among old people and a few university students, colloquially full of gross English idiom lately taken over, exact shades of meanings of most words not to be found in any of its dictionaries and dialectally varying enormously (what chance of the appreciation of the overtones of poetry, except amongst a handful?) Above all, all economic, social and political factors working against it, and, with that, the notorious, moral cowardice of the Highlanders themselves.”
Sorley MacLean (1911–1996) first seen 1943 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sorley MacLean, June 1943, quoted in Krause, Corinna. "Translating Gaelic Scotland" and "Gaelic Scotland – A Postcolonial Site?