Quotes Tagged With :melville

When the vision fill yours mind and passio hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled.....

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

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

But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death....

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

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

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

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

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

I would prefer not to.