Yorick Quotes

“Danny strolled to the town common, sat on one of the benches in Teenytown and took one of the bottles out of the bag, looking down on it like Hamlet with Yorick's skull”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“Your writing blows, by the by. You split more infinitives than Gene Roddenberry.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7: Paper Dolls

“I once witnessed a rather unfortunate production of Shakespeare's Hamlet - the lead actor didn't know his existential angst from his iambic pentameter and, alas, poor Yorick was a bemused bystander.”
― Stewart Stafford

“The Great Dane by Stewart Stafford

Martyr father of poison sleep,
Rotten carcass of a slain beast,
Wicked stars cast against him,
Beloved, that loved him least.

O maggot of gnawing doubt,
Wriggling along life’s tightrope,
Sleepwalking this broken path,
To a coup de grâce last stroke.

The players unmask dark play,
Trampling nightshade that reeks,
Honour's duel in a snake pit,
The shadow castle grows weak.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford