Quotes Tagged With :elvil

Melville to Hawthorne: "In your stories, you seem to understand that the dramatic moments come not when....

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call....

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is....

In school I ended up writing three different papers on "The Castaway" section of Moby-Dick, the chapter....

To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din....

So true it is, and so terrible, too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists....

Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of....

Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary....

You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame....