Quotes Tagged With :melville

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

and yet a child’s utter innocence is but its blank ignorance, and the innocence more or less wanes....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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