Quotes Tagged With :melville

I would prefer not to.

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

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

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....

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

And the drawing near of Death, which alike levels all, alike impresses all with a last revelation, which....

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

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

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

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