Hamlet Named

Famous quotes containing the words hamlet and/or named:

    “Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn’t had an audience, and lines to speak?”
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    “who should moor at his edge
    And fare on afoot would find gates of no gardens,
    But the hill of dark underfoot diving,
    Closing overhead, the cold deep, and drowning.
    He is called Leviathan, and named for rolling,”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)