---
title: "34 Herman Melville Quotes by 28 authors"
description: "Browse 34 Herman Melville quotes by 28 authors. Discover the best Herman Melville sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/harold-bloom-3350_class_the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing_218837.png"
---

> [The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing-class-is-always-distressing/)

[Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-bloom/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/harold-bloom-3350_class_the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing_218837.png)

> [Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-dahlberg/herman-melville-was-as-separated-from-a-civilized-literature-as-the/)

[Edward Dahlberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-dahlberg/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6b/edward-dahlberg-10740_atlantis_herman-melville-was-as-separated-from-a_3049579.png)

> [As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-philbrick/as-herman-melville-wrote-of-that-seagoing-monster-of-a-man-captain/)

[Nathaniel Philbrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nathaniel-philbrick/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/nathaniel-philbrick-9218_ahab_as-herman-melville-wrote-of-that-seagoin_2262997.jpg)

> [Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/or-why-you-are-wearing-a-picture-of-santa-clause-on-you-shirts-but-it/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/anonymous-1_clauses_or-why-you-are-wearing-a-picture-of-sant_1771801.jpg)

> [“Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked." Herman Melville”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-wortsman/besides-99-hundredths-of-all-the-work-done-in-the-world-is-either/)

[Peter Wortsman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-wortsman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/685/peter-wortsman-269493_work-done_besides-99-hundredths-of-all-the-work-do_1112869.jpg)

> [Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-mclean/herman-melville-was-supposed-to-be-an-accountant-van-gogh-was-meant/)

[Don McLean](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-mclean/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/don-mclean-6904_art_herman-melville-was-supposed-to-be-an-ac_730791.png)

> [“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-finkel/herman-melville-the-author-of-moby-dick-largely-withdrew-from-public/)

[Michael Finkel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-finkel/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc8/michael-finkel-7714_books_herman-melville-the-author-of-moby-dick_1250145.jpg)

> [I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-walter/i-cling-to-the-idea-that-herman-melville-had-to-work-at-the-end-of/)

[Jess Walter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-walter/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/jess-walter-2228_agent_i-cling-to-the-idea-that-herman-melville_180471.jpg)

> [ “The Middle East, that seductive region where \[Herman\] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-oren/the-middle-east-that-seductive-region-where-herman-melville-had-hoped/)

[Michael Oren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-oren/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/michael-oren-38772_inspiration_the-middle-east-that-seductive-region-wh_1841986.jpg)

> [My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/my-first-attraction-to-writing-novels-was-the-plot-that-almost/)

[John Irving](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-irving/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/john-irving-337_almost_my-first-attraction-to-writing-novels-wa_915620.jpg)

> [You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/you-know-who-my-gods-are-who-i-believe-in-fervently-herman-melville/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_you-know-who-my-gods-are-who-i-believe-i_2401772.jpg)

> [“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-fuhrman/of-all-the-preposterous-assumptions-of-humanity-over-humanity-nothing/)

[Joel Fuhrman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-fuhrman/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/413/joel-fuhrman-1525_humanity_of-all-the-preposterous-assumptions-of-h_490924.jpg)

> [The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everything-creation-betrayal-lust/)

[Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patti-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/749/patti-smith-394_betrayal_the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everyt_1402312.jpg)

> [IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/in-answer-to-the-question-what-scenes-one-would-like-to-have-filmed/)

[Vladimir Nabokov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vladimir-nabokov/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/vladimir-nabokov-198_alaska_in-answer-to-the-question-what-scenes-on_580568.jpg)

> [“Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-anderson/every-book-is-an-alchemical-creation-and-i-m-thinking-back-to-1857/)

[Laurie Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laurie-anderson/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15a/laurie-anderson-3908_books_every-book-is-an-alchemical-creation-and_1109492.png)

> [Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/herman-melville-said-that-artists-have-to-take-a-dive-and-either-you/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49c/maurice-sendak-1273_art_herman-melville-said-that-artists-have-t_1835759.jpg)

> [Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/art-has-always-been-my-salvation-and-my-gods-are-herman-melville/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/maurice-sendak-1273_animal_art-has-always-been-my-salvation-and-my_1162842.jpg)

> [Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-howe/herman-melville-is-not-comforting-emily-dickinson-isn-t-either-maybe/)

[Susan Howe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-howe/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/susan-howe-36793_abandoned_herman-melville-is-not-comforting-emily_2182581.jpg)

> [I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/i-am-not-a-religious-person-nor-do-i-have-any-regrets-the-war-took/)

[Maurice Sendak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-sendak/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_i-am-not-a-religious-person-nor-do-i-hav_1174820.jpg)

> [“Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/herman-melville-august-1-1819-september-28-1891-was-an-american/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/herman-melville-162_melville_herman-melville-august-1-1819-september_2808071.jpg)

> [The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everything-creation-betrayal-lust-2/)

[Patti Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/patti-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/patti-smith-394_betrayal_the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everyt_2575421.jpg)

> [“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-anderson-ny-magazine/imperial-is-like-robert-caro-s-the-power-broker-with-the-attitude-of/)

[Sam Anderson - NY Magazine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-anderson-ny-magazine/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/sam-anderson-ny-magazine-14071_books_imperial-is-like-robert-caro-s-the-power_1913873.jpg)

> [“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-jay-dolin/the-heroic-and-often-tragic-stories-of-american-whalemen-were/)

[Eric Jay Dolin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eric-jay-dolin/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/eric-jay-dolin-76004_american-history_the-heroic-and-often-tragic-stories-of-a_2039216.jpg)

> [“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/moby-dick-or-the-whale-by-herman-melville-chapter-1-loomings-call-me/)

[Herman Melville](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herman-melville/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/herman-melville-162_upper-hand_moby-dick-or-the-whale-by-herman-melvill_1080434.jpg)

> [“The Pacific, greatest of oceans, has an area exceeding that of all dry land on the planet. Herman Melville called it "the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-stanley/the-pacific-greatest-of-oceans-has-an-area-exceeding-that-of-all-dry/)

[David Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-stanley/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/david-stanley-85203_dry-land_the-pacific-greatest-of-oceans-has-an-ar_3119343.jpg)

> [ “...it’s worth pointing out that \[Herman Melville\] worked in \[the New York Custom House\] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-vowell/it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melville-worked-in-the-new-york/)

[Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-vowell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/sarah-vowell-2016_american-author_it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melv_1754176.jpg)

> [“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/when-one-reads-and-re-reads-moby-dick-it-seems-to-me-that-one-gets-a/)

[W. Somerset Maugham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-somerset-maugham/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/w-somerset-maugham-237_failure_when-one-reads-and-re-reads-moby-dick-it_931236.jpg)

> [“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/do-you-know-why-teachers-use-me-because-i-speak-in-tongues-i-write/)

[Ray Bradbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ray-bradbury/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/ray-bradbury-75_allan-poe_do-you-know-why-teachers-use-me-because_1405481.jpg)

> [“We hear more about dignity and “pensive luster” from cultures where the patina of age is highly valued, from the shutaku (soil…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-lewis/we-hear-more-about-dignity-and-pensive-luster-from-cultures-where-the/)

[Sarah Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-lewis/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/911/sarah-lewis-16690_chinese-culture_we-hear-more-about-dignity-and-pensive-l_2608319.jpg)

> [“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-rodham-clinton/we-cannot-live-for-ourselves-alone-our-lives-are-connected-by-a-2/)

[Hillary Rodham Clinton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hillary-rodham-clinton/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/hillary-rodham-clinton-890_life_we-cannot-live-for-ourselves-alone-our-l_2084148.jpg)

> [If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cooper-clarke/if-you-want-to-know-why-the-coast-is-such-an-inspirational-place-ask/)

[John Cooper Clarke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-cooper-clarke/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/john-cooper-clarke-4797_coast_if-you-want-to-know-why-the-coast-is-suc_725142.png)

> [The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-great-american-writer-herman-melville-says-somewhere-in-the-white/)

[Jorge Luis Borges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jorge-luis-borges/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/280/jorge-luis-borges-275_ambition_the-great-american-writer-herman-melvill_2656246.jpg)

> [“You can imagine Herman Melville coming to his publisher with his new manuscript. They ask him what it's about, and he says,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-can-imagine-herman-melville-coming-to-his-publisher-with-his-new/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/802/anonymous-1_book_you-can-imagine-herman-melville-coming-t_2178478.jpg)

> [I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-ware/i-wanted-to-make-comics-that-get-at-feelings-that-connect-to-the/)

[Chris Ware](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chris-ware/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/chris-ware-8123_approach_i-wanted-to-make-comics-that-get-at-feel_2273739.jpg)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/herman-melville/#itemlist",
            "name": "Herman Melville Quotes",
            "numberOfItems": 34,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Harold Bloom"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing-class-is-always-distressing/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/harold-bloom-3350_class_the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing_218837.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/harold-bloom-3350_class_the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing_218837.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/harold-bloom-3350_class_the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing_218837.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.” — Harold Bloom",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Edward Dahlberg"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-dahlberg/herman-melville-was-as-separated-from-a-civilized-literature-as-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6b/edward-dahlberg-10740_atlantis_herman-melville-was-as-separated-from-a_3049579.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6b/edward-dahlberg-10740_atlantis_herman-melville-was-as-separated-from-a_3049579.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6b/edward-dahlberg-10740_atlantis_herman-melville-was-as-separated-from-a_3049579.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from…” — Edward Dahlberg",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Nathaniel Philbrick"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nathaniel-philbrick/as-herman-melville-wrote-of-that-seagoing-monster-of-a-man-captain/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/nathaniel-philbrick-9218_ahab_as-herman-melville-wrote-of-that-seagoin_2262997.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/nathaniel-philbrick-9218_ahab_as-herman-melville-wrote-of-that-seagoin_2262997.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d7c/nathaniel-philbrick-9218_ahab_as-herman-melville-wrote-of-that-seagoin_2262997.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease.” — Nathaniel Philbrick",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Anonymous"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/or-why-you-are-wearing-a-picture-of-santa-clause-on-you-shirts-but-it/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/anonymous-1_clauses_or-why-you-are-wearing-a-picture-of-sant_1771801.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/anonymous-1_clauses_or-why-you-are-wearing-a-picture-of-sant_1771801.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/956/anonymous-1_clauses_or-why-you-are-wearing-a-picture-of-sant_1771801.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville.” — Anonymous",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and wicked.\" Herman Melville”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Peter Wortsman"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-wortsman/besides-99-hundredths-of-all-the-work-done-in-the-world-is-either/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/685/peter-wortsman-269493_work-done_besides-99-hundredths-of-all-the-work-do_1112869.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/685/peter-wortsman-269493_work-done_besides-99-hundredths-of-all-the-work-do_1112869.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/685/peter-wortsman-269493_work-done_besides-99-hundredths-of-all-the-work-do_1112869.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Besides, 99 hundredths of all the work done in the world is either foolish and unnecessary, or harmful and…” — Peter Wortsman",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to take the train into New York and work for a bank. To be an artist, you have to say goodbye to your family.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Don McLean"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-mclean/herman-melville-was-supposed-to-be-an-accountant-van-gogh-was-meant/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/don-mclean-6904_art_herman-melville-was-supposed-to-be-an-ac_730791.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/don-mclean-6904_art_herman-melville-was-supposed-to-be-an-ac_730791.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59f/don-mclean-6904_art_herman-melville-was-supposed-to-be-an-ac_730791.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Herman Melville was supposed to be an accountant. Van Gogh was meant to be an art dealer. I was meant to…” — Don McLean",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and attended by Silence.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Michael Finkel"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-finkel/herman-melville-the-author-of-moby-dick-largely-withdrew-from-public/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc8/michael-finkel-7714_books_herman-melville-the-author-of-moby-dick_1250145.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc8/michael-finkel-7714_books_herman-melville-the-author-of-moby-dick_1250145.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc8/michael-finkel-7714_books_herman-melville-the-author-of-moby-dick_1250145.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound…” — Michael Finkel",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a shipping agent in New York. Any writer who thinks they should be given patronage because of their gift... you don't have to look too far in history to see that's just not the case.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jess Walter"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-walter/i-cling-to-the-idea-that-herman-melville-had-to-work-at-the-end-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/jess-walter-2228_agent_i-cling-to-the-idea-that-herman-melville_180471.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/jess-walter-2228_agent_i-cling-to-the-idea-that-herman-melville_180471.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c56/jess-walter-2228_agent_i-cling-to-the-idea-that-herman-melville_180471.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I cling to the idea that Herman Melville had to work at the end of his career watching ships in a dock, as a…” — Jess Walter",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and revive his diminishing career, had proved an egregious disappointment. \"The whole thing is half melancholy, half farcical,\" he groaned, \"like all the rest of the world.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Michael Oren"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-oren/the-middle-east-that-seductive-region-where-herman-melville-had-hoped/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/michael-oren-38772_inspiration_the-middle-east-that-seductive-region-wh_1841986.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/michael-oren-38772_inspiration_the-middle-east-that-seductive-region-wh_1841986.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fea/michael-oren-38772_inspiration_the-middle-east-that-seductive-region-wh_1841986.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The Middle East, that seductive region where [Herman] Melville had hoped to rekindle his inspiration and…” — Michael Oren",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to be a novelist were long, always plotted, novels - not just Victorian novels, but also those of my New England ancestors: Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "John Irving"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-irving/my-first-attraction-to-writing-novels-was-the-plot-that-almost/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/john-irving-337_almost_my-first-attraction-to-writing-novels-wa_915620.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/john-irving-337_almost_my-first-attraction-to-writing-novels-wa_915620.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9dc/john-irving-337_almost_my-first-attraction-to-writing-novels-wa_915620.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which…” — John Irving",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Maurice Sendak"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/you-know-who-my-gods-are-who-i-believe-in-fervently-herman-melville/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_you-know-who-my-gods-are-who-i-believe-i_2401772.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_you-know-who-my-gods-are-who-i-believe-i_2401772.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15f/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_you-know-who-my-gods-are-who-i-believe-i_2401772.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the…” — Maurice Sendak",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed. —HERMAN MELVILLE”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Joel Fuhrman"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-fuhrman/of-all-the-preposterous-assumptions-of-humanity-over-humanity-nothing/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/413/joel-fuhrman-1525_humanity_of-all-the-preposterous-assumptions-of-h_490924.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/413/joel-fuhrman-1525_humanity_of-all-the-preposterous-assumptions-of-h_490924.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/413/joel-fuhrman-1525_humanity_of-all-the-preposterous-assumptions-of-h_490924.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made…” — Joel Fuhrman",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the Bible, and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patti Smith"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everything-creation-betrayal-lust/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/749/patti-smith-394_betrayal_the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everyt_1402312.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/749/patti-smith-394_betrayal_the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everyt_1402312.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/749/patti-smith-394_betrayal_the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everyt_1402312.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The Bible is very resonant. It has everything: creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All…” — Patti Smith",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 14,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The beheading of Louis the Sixteenth, the drums drowning his speech on the scaffold. Herman Melville at breakfast, feeling a sardine to his cat. Poe's wedding. Lewis Carroll's picnics. The Russians leaving Alaska, delighted with the deal. Shot of a seal applauding.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Vladimir Nabokov"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vladimir-nabokov/in-answer-to-the-question-what-scenes-one-would-like-to-have-filmed/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/vladimir-nabokov-198_alaska_in-answer-to-the-question-what-scenes-on_580568.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/vladimir-nabokov-198_alaska_in-answer-to-the-question-what-scenes-on_580568.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/vladimir-nabokov-198_alaska_in-answer-to-the-question-what-scenes-on_580568.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's…” — Vladimir Nabokov",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 15,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece and saw the Parthenon for the first time sitting there like a great beached whale, its big white bones exposed to the winds. But how can this happen? How can a whale turn into a building? Or into a book? In what way can words be alive?”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Laurie Anderson"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laurie-anderson/every-book-is-an-alchemical-creation-and-i-m-thinking-back-to-1857/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15a/laurie-anderson-3908_books_every-book-is-an-alchemical-creation-and_1109492.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15a/laurie-anderson-3908_books_every-book-is-an-alchemical-creation-and_1109492.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/15a/laurie-anderson-3908_books_every-book-is-an-alchemical-creation-and_1109492.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Every book is an alchemical creation, and I'm thinking back to 1857 when Herman Melville arrived in Greece…” — Laurie Anderson",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 16,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split your skull and you die … or that blow to the head is so inspiring that you come back and do the best work that you ever did. BUT you have to take the dive and you do not know what the results will be.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Maurice Sendak"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/herman-melville-said-that-artists-have-to-take-a-dive-and-either-you/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49c/maurice-sendak-1273_art_herman-melville-said-that-artists-have-t_1835759.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49c/maurice-sendak-1273_art_herman-melville-said-that-artists-have-t_1835759.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/49c/maurice-sendak-1273_art_herman-melville-said-that-artists-have-t_1835759.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split…” — Maurice Sendak",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 17,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart. Or if I walk in the woods and I see an animal, the purpose of my life was to see that animal. I can recollect it, I can notice it. I’m here to take note of. And that is beyond my ego, beyond anything that belongs to me, an observer, an observer.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Maurice Sendak"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/art-has-always-been-my-salvation-and-my-gods-are-herman-melville/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/maurice-sendak-1273_animal_art-has-always-been-my-salvation-and-my_1162842.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/maurice-sendak-1273_animal_art-has-always-been-my-salvation-and-my_1162842.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b25/maurice-sendak-1273_animal_art-has-always-been-my-salvation-and-my_1162842.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in…” — Maurice Sendak",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 18,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Susan Howe"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-howe/herman-melville-is-not-comforting-emily-dickinson-isn-t-either-maybe/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/susan-howe-36793_abandoned_herman-melville-is-not-comforting-emily_2182581.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/susan-howe-36793_abandoned_herman-melville-is-not-comforting-emily_2182581.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/susan-howe-36793_abandoned_herman-melville-is-not-comforting-emily_2182581.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort…” — Susan Howe",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 19,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know, I was brought up strictly kosher, but I - it made no sense to me. It made no sense to me what was happening. So nothing of it means anything to me. Nothing. Except these few little trivial things that are related to being Jewish. ... You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Maurice Sendak"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-sendak/i-am-not-a-religious-person-nor-do-i-have-any-regrets-the-war-took/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_i-am-not-a-religious-person-nor-do-i-hav_1174820.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_i-am-not-a-religious-person-nor-do-i-hav_1174820.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/333/maurice-sendak-1273_believe_i-am-not-a-religious-person-nor-do-i-hav_1174820.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know, I was…” — Maurice Sendak",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 20,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels were bestsellers, but his popularity declined later in his life. By the time of his death he had virtually been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity — was rediscovered in the 20th century as a literary masterpiece. Source: Wikipedia”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Herman Melville"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/herman-melville-august-1-1819-september-28-1891-was-an-american/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/herman-melville-162_melville_herman-melville-august-1-1819-september_2808071.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/herman-melville-162_melville_herman-melville-august-1-1819-september_2808071.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e27/herman-melville-162_melville_herman-melville-august-1-1819-september_2808071.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer…” — Herman Melville",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 21,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and all great writers have drawn from it and more than people realise, whether Shakespeare, Herman Melville or Bob Dylan. Of course there are stories that are still relevant and inspiring; lessons that need to be taught over and over again. And they give people hope.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Patti Smith"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/patti-smith/the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everything-creation-betrayal-lust-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/patti-smith-394_betrayal_the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everyt_2575421.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/patti-smith-394_betrayal_the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everyt_2575421.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e8/patti-smith-394_betrayal_the-bible-is-very-resonant-it-has-everyt_2575421.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All…” — Patti Smith",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 22,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been raised in an abandoned grain silo by a band of feral raccoons, and if Mike Davis were the communications director of a heavily armed libertarian survivalist cult, and if the two of them had somehow managed to stitch John McPhee’s cortex onto the brain of a Gila monster, which they then sent to the Mexican border to conduct ten years of immersive research, and also if they wrote the entire manuscript on dried banana leaves with a toucan beak dipped in hobo blood, and then the book was line-edited during a 36-hour peyote séance by the ghosts of John Steinbeck, Jack London, and Sinclair Lewis, with 200 pages of endnotes faxed over by Henry David Thoreau’s great-great-great-great grandson from a concrete bunker under a toxic pond behind a maquiladora, and if at the last minute Herman Melville threw up all over the manuscript, rendering it illegible, so it had to be re-created from memory by a community-theater actor doing his best impression of Jack Kerouac. With photographs by Dorothea Lange. (Viking has my full blessing to use that as a blurb.)”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Sam Anderson - NY Magazine"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-anderson-ny-magazine/imperial-is-like-robert-caro-s-the-power-broker-with-the-attitude-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/sam-anderson-ny-magazine-14071_books_imperial-is-like-robert-caro-s-the-power_1913873.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/sam-anderson-ny-magazine-14071_books_imperial-is-like-robert-caro-s-the-power_1913873.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3b1/sam-anderson-ny-magazine-14071_books_imperial-is-like-robert-caro-s-the-power_1913873.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert…” — Sam Anderson - NY Magazine",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 23,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with bravery, perseverance, endurance, and survival. They mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, sang, spun yarns, scrimshawed, and recorded their musings and observations in journals and letters. They survived boredom, backbreaking work, tempestuous seas, floggings, pirates, putrid food, and unimaginable cold. Enemies preyed on them in times of war, and competitors envied them in times of peace. Many whalemen died from violent encounters with whales and from terrible miscalculations about the unforgiving nature of nature itself. And through it all, whalemen, those “iron men in wooden boats” created a legacy of dramatic, poignant, and at times horrific stories that can still stir our emotions and animate the most primal part of our imaginations. “To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme,” proclaimed Herman Melville, and the epic story of whaling is one of the mightiest themes in American history.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Eric Jay Dolin"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eric-jay-dolin/the-heroic-and-often-tragic-stories-of-american-whalemen-were/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/eric-jay-dolin-76004_american-history_the-heroic-and-often-tragic-stories-of-a_2039216.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/eric-jay-dolin-76004_american-history_the-heroic-and-often-tragic-stories-of-a_2039216.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d9/eric-jay-dolin-76004_american-history_the-heroic-and-often-tragic-stories-of-a_2039216.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and…” — Eric Jay Dolin",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 24,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Herman Melville"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herman-melville/moby-dick-or-the-whale-by-herman-melville-chapter-1-loomings-call-me/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/herman-melville-162_upper-hand_moby-dick-or-the-whale-by-herman-melvill_1080434.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/herman-melville-162_upper-hand_moby-dick-or-the-whale-by-herman-melvill_1080434.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b67/herman-melville-162_upper-hand_moby-dick-or-the-whale-by-herman-melvill_1080434.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how…” — Herman Melville",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 25,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“The Pacific, greatest of oceans, has an area exceeding that of all dry land on the planet. Herman Melville called it \"the tide-beating heart of earth.\" Covering more than a third of the planet's surface--as much as the Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic oceans combined--it's the largest geographical feature in the world. Its awesome 165,384,000 square km (up to 16,000 km wide and 11,000 km long) have an average depth of around 4,000 meters. Half the world's liquid water is stored here. You could drop the entire dry landmass of our planet into the Pacific and still have room for another continent the size of Asia. One theory claims the moon may have been flung from the Pacific while the world was still young.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "David Stanley"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-stanley/the-pacific-greatest-of-oceans-has-an-area-exceeding-that-of-all-dry/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/david-stanley-85203_dry-land_the-pacific-greatest-of-oceans-has-an-ar_3119343.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/david-stanley-85203_dry-land_the-pacific-greatest-of-oceans-has-an-ar_3119343.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/020/david-stanley-85203_dry-land_the-pacific-greatest-of-oceans-has-an-ar_3119343.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The Pacific, greatest of oceans, has an area exceeding that of all dry land on the planet. Herman Melville…” — David Stanley",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 26,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and 1885. Nineteen years, and he never got a raise - four dollars a day, six days a week. He was by then a washed-up writer, forgotten and poor. I used to find this subject heartbreaking, a waste: the greatest living American author was forced to spend his days writing tariff reports instead of novels. But now, knowing what I know about the sleaze of the New York Custom House, and the honorable if bitter decency with which Melville did his job, I have come to regard literature’s loss as the republic’s gain. Great writers are a dime a dozen in New York. But an honest customs inspector in the Gilded Age? Unheard of.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Sarah Vowell"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-vowell/it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melville-worked-in-the-new-york/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/sarah-vowell-2016_american-author_it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melv_1754176.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/sarah-vowell-2016_american-author_it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melv_1754176.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de7/sarah-vowell-2016_american-author_it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melv_1754176.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs…” — Sarah Vowell",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 27,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression of the man than from anything one may learn of his life and circumstances; an impression of a man endowed by nature with a great gift blighted by an evil genius, so that, like the agave, no sooner had it put forth its splendid blooming than it withered; a moody, unhappy man tormented by instincts he shrank from with horror; a man conscious that the virtue had gone out of him, and embittered by failure and poverty; a man of heart craving for friendship, only to find that friendship too was vanity. Such, as I see him, was Herman Melville, a man whom one can only regard with deep compassion.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "W. Somerset Maugham"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-somerset-maugham/when-one-reads-and-re-reads-moby-dick-it-seems-to-me-that-one-gets-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/w-somerset-maugham-237_failure_when-one-reads-and-re-reads-moby-dick-it_931236.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/w-somerset-maugham-237_failure_when-one-reads-and-re-reads-moby-dick-it_931236.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3be/w-somerset-maugham-237_failure_when-one-reads-and-re-reads-moby-dick-it_931236.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite…” — W. Somerset Maugham",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 28,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great religions are all metaphor. We appreciate things like Daniel and the lion’s den, and the Tower of Babel. People remember these metaphors because they are so vivid you can’t get free of them and that’s what kids like in school. They read about rocket ships and encounters in space, tales of dinosaurs. All my life I’ve been running through the fields and picking up bright objects. I turn one over and say, Yeah, there’s a story. And that’s what kids like. Today, my stories are in a thousand anthologies. And I’m in good company. The other writers are quite often dead people who wrote in metaphors: Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne. All these people wrote for children. They may have pretended not to, but they did.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Ray Bradbury"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ray-bradbury/do-you-know-why-teachers-use-me-because-i-speak-in-tongues-i-write/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/ray-bradbury-75_allan-poe_do-you-know-why-teachers-use-me-because_1405481.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/ray-bradbury-75_allan-poe_do-you-know-why-teachers-use-me-because_1405481.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/af1/ray-bradbury-75_allan-poe_do-you-know-why-teachers-use-me-because_1405481.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a…” — Ray Bradbury",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 29,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“We hear more about dignity and “pensive luster” from cultures where the patina of age is highly valued, from the shutaku (soil from handling) in Chinese culture or the Japanese concept of nare that garners a reverence over “shallow brilliance,” objects with too much finish. 12 In France, low radiance, the mere shine off a coin, was once enough to mark the start and end of the workday in winter, it was “the moment when there was not enough light to distinguish a denier [a small coin] of Tours from a denier of Paris.” 13 The light that begins and ends these uncommon journeys requires a similar sensitivity to their sheen. It often takes a blaze to see things anew. So age upon age has had its icons who went unsung during their lifetime. When Herman Melville died as a customs agent at the Port of New York in 1891, his widow complained that the copyright of White Jacket (1850) and Moby-Dick (1851) had no worth; they “give no income and have no market value.” 14 It took nearly seventy years for Moby-Dick to receive its critical acclaim. In the final months of writing the book, Melville suspected as much, and acrimoniously foretold his fate: “though I wrote the Gospels in this century, I should die in the gutter.” 15 Our lodestars often shine a few foot-candles below the level we are prepared to see.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Sarah Lewis"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-lewis/we-hear-more-about-dignity-and-pensive-luster-from-cultures-where-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/911/sarah-lewis-16690_chinese-culture_we-hear-more-about-dignity-and-pensive-l_2608319.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/911/sarah-lewis-16690_chinese-culture_we-hear-more-about-dignity-and-pensive-l_2608319.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/911/sarah-lewis-16690_chinese-culture_we-hear-more-about-dignity-and-pensive-l_2608319.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“We hear more about dignity and “pensive luster” from cultures where the patina of age is highly valued, from…” — Sarah Lewis",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 30,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results. HERMAN MELVILLE”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Hillary Rodham Clinton"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hillary-rodham-clinton/we-cannot-live-for-ourselves-alone-our-lives-are-connected-by-a-2/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/hillary-rodham-clinton-890_life_we-cannot-live-for-ourselves-alone-our-l_2084148.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/hillary-rodham-clinton-890_life_we-cannot-live-for-ourselves-alone-our-l_2084148.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d9f/hillary-rodham-clinton-890_life_we-cannot-live-for-ourselves-alone-our-l_2084148.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these…” — Hillary Rodham Clinton",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 31,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff and Hall, Robert Louis Stevenson or Joseph Conrad. It's a glimpse of eternity. It invites rumination, the relentless whisper of the tide against the shore.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "John Cooper Clarke"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-cooper-clarke/if-you-want-to-know-why-the-coast-is-such-an-inspirational-place-ask/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/john-cooper-clarke-4797_coast_if-you-want-to-know-why-the-coast-is-suc_725142.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/john-cooper-clarke-4797_coast_if-you-want-to-know-why-the-coast-is-suc_725142.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97d/john-cooper-clarke-4797_coast_if-you-want-to-know-why-the-coast-is-suc_725142.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“If you want to know why the coast is such an inspirational place, ask Herman Melville, Jack London, Nordhoff…” — John Cooper Clarke",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 32,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Jorge Luis Borges"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jorge-luis-borges/the-great-american-writer-herman-melville-says-somewhere-in-the-white/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/280/jorge-luis-borges-275_ambition_the-great-american-writer-herman-melvill_2656246.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/280/jorge-luis-borges-275_ambition_the-great-american-writer-herman-melvill_2656246.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/280/jorge-luis-borges-275_ambition_the-great-american-writer-herman-melvill_2656246.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a…” — Jorge Luis Borges",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 33,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "“You can imagine Herman Melville coming to his publisher with his new manuscript. They ask him what it's about, and he says, 'It's about a one-legged captain who's had his leg bitten off by a whale.' It wouldn't have sounded that promising. Fitzgerald wrote Gatsby, he was told you couldn't write seriously about a bootlegger. If a man cares intensely enough about tiddley winks, his book about tiddley winks ill be a great novel.”",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Anonymous"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/you-can-imagine-herman-melville-coming-to-his-publisher-with-his-new/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/802/anonymous-1_book_you-can-imagine-herman-melville-coming-t_2178478.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/802/anonymous-1_book_you-can-imagine-herman-melville-coming-t_2178478.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/802/anonymous-1_book_you-can-imagine-herman-melville-coming-t_2178478.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“You can imagine Herman Melville coming to his publisher with his new manuscript. They ask him what it's…” — Anonymous",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 34,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.'",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Chris Ware"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chris-ware/i-wanted-to-make-comics-that-get-at-feelings-that-connect-to-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/chris-ware-8123_approach_i-wanted-to-make-comics-that-get-at-feel_2273739.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/chris-ware-8123_approach_i-wanted-to-make-comics-that-get-at-feel_2273739.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/chris-ware-8123_approach_i-wanted-to-make-comics-that-get-at-feel_2273739.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading…” — Chris Ware",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/herman-melville/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/herman-melville/",
            "name": "Herman Melville Quotes",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/herman-melville/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b5/harold-bloom-3350_class_the-idea-of-herman-melville-in-a-writing_218837.png"
            },
            "description": "Browse 34 Herman Melville quotes by 28 authors. Discover the best Herman Melville sayings and thoughts.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/herman-melville/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/herman-melville/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Herman Melville Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/herman-melville/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```