Poets
- William Hamilton (poet) (1665–1751), Scottish poet
- William Hamilton (Jacobite poet) (1704–1754), Scottish poet associated with the Jacobite movement
- William Hamilton (British Army officer) (1891–1917), poet and soldier from Victoria Barracks, Windsor
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“The people fancy they hate poetry, and they are all poets and mystics.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
“I have made a very rude translation of the Seven against Thebes, and Pindar too I have looked at, and wish he was better worth translating. I believe even the best things are not equal to their fame. Perhaps it would be better to translate fame itself,—or is not that what the poets themselves do? However, I have not done with Pindar yet.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)