Hamlet: It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o’er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Ode To The Old
As a premature spring rain is born to an early March wind, a heavy heart carries unfulfilled dreams within my soul.
Rain falls steadily never to cease or console, as if only to circumvent my actions for a short while, contorting and adding more difficulty as the March wind howls and blows.
The mind wanders and reaches for a tiny fragment of youth as wrought iron rusts and a March wind swirls paying tribute to the Ode to the old.
Nearby trees yield to and fro, struggling to stand tall as the unforgiving wrath carries on.
Once supple hands are now crippled by an unforgiving touch of an ode to the old.
King Claudius: How fares our cousin Hamlet?
Hamlet: Excellent, i' faith, of the chameleon's dish. I eat the air, promise-crammed. You cannot feed capons so.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Queen Gertrude: O Hamlet, thou hast cleft my heart in twain.
Hamlet: Oh, throw away the worser part of it,
And live the purer with the other half.
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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A final house stands at this hamlet's site (In diesem Dorfe steht das letzte Haus)
A final house stands at this hamlet's site,
as lonesome as the final house on earth.
The road, unhindered by the hamlet's girth
keeps walking slowly out into the night.
The hamlet is but a transition side
of two expanses, anxious, terrified;
its walk along the houses mere relay.
And those that leave the hamlet wander wide
and many die perhaps along the way.
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (19 September 1901), translated by Walter Aue
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An echo for a novel dream
Holding a loss with great esteem
He lay asleep with old shadows
Circumvent not, new waken dream
Beneath the sun there lay a bream
Too much ardor for faithful ones
Holding a loss with great esteem
Once blue, now frozen stood a stream
A love withdrew when fall was young
Circumvent not, new waken dream
Each pebble thrown, love was the theme
All was the same, his morning breaths
Holding a loss with great esteem
Two souls conjoined, he was the seam
Her hasty fleet fluttered the wind
Circumvent not, new waken dream
Two childhoods known, both were extreme
Her love took side, and there stood time
Holding a loss with great esteem
Circumvent not, new waken dream
Hamlet is a remarkably easy role. Physically it's hard because it tends to be about three hours long and you're talking the whole time. But it's a simple role and it adapts itself very well, because the thing about Hamlet is, we all are Hamlet.
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Hamlet: Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew.
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: The time is out of joint. O, cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins and worse remains behind.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 4 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what
replication should be made by the son of a king?
line from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: There are more things in heaven and earth Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare
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I Am No Politician
I am no politician.
I am direct.
Every blemish and flaw I have,
I accept without regret.
I am not trying to win your approval
To represent your requests.
Nor will I disappoint you...
With deceit to later confess.
I am no politician.
Seeking a way to line my pockets.
I find that disgusting!
And I observe those who can not stop it!
Your quality of life...
With standards you behold.
Isn't my fault at all!
That your best interests,
They have sold!
You selected them to dismiss me.
To keep me and mine in check!
You elected them to suppress my dignity.
To keep my indentity distressed.
You chose them to divide and conquer.
By rules and laws
They clearly defied...
You now regret!
Why me...
You despise?
I am no politician!
My priorities are my happiness.
Not to masquerade with pretentions...
For purposes to make promises,
With intentions to forget.
I am no politician...
To trap you like prey.
And dangle you to capture...
As I make arrangements with others,
To take away the safety from your nests.
To portray in false charades.
I am no politician.
So voice your anger,
To those you believed...
Would come to your aid.
While on your knees you plead.
I am no politician!
I sleep at night.
In peace and at rest!
I am no politician...
Nor a hypocrite you will find,
Who will say something other
Than what is on my mind!
You can bet,
With respect...
I am direct.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
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Hamlet: Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.
line from Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: Ay, but sir, 'While the grass grows,' -- the proverb is something musty.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: I dare not confess that, lest I should compare with him in excellence; but, to know a man well, were to know himself.
line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: God's bodykins, man, much better. Use every man
after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping?
line from Hamlet by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: It is but foolery; but it is such a kind of gain-giving, as would perhaps trouble a woman.
line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: These indeed seem, for they are actions that a man might play. But I have that within which passeth show; these but the trappings and the suits of woe.
line from Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remember'd.
line from Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1 by William Shakespeare (1599)
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Hamlet: The phrase would be more german to the matter, if we could carry cannon by our sides.
line from Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2, script by William Shakespeare (1599)
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