Quotes Tagged With :melville

The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans....

Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion....

Herman Melville came to see me at the Consulate, looking much as he used to do (a little paler, and perhaps....

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

When I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, plumb down into the forecastle, aloft....

They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the....

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

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

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

It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s....