Hamilton

Famous quotes containing the word hamilton:

    “None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”
    —Edith Hamilton (1867–1963)

    “Earth that bore with joyful ease
    Hemlock for Socrates,
    Earth that blossomed and was glad
    ‘Neath the cross that Christ had,
    Shall rejoice and blossom too
    When the bullet reaches you.”
    —Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895–1915)

    “Word’s gane to the kitchen,
    And word’s gane to the ha’,
    That Marie Hamilton gangs wi’ bairn
    To the hichest Stewart of a’.”
    —Unknown. Mary Hamilton (l. 1–4)