Herman-melville Quotes

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

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 chap...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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