The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book.… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease. — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Melville’s last published novel, The Confidence-Man (1857), a notably “talky” text that offers a useful allegory of the very” — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
“Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm able to be a normal mom for the most part. I'm in [clothing store] Brandy Melville like all the other moms. — Gwyneth Paltrow Copy Share Image
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Man's deliberate destruction of his own habitat -- planet Earth -- could serve as a mighty theme for a mighty book worthy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Herman Melville, the author of Moby-Dick, largely withdrew from public life for thirty years. “All profound things,” he wrote, “are preceded and… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
“She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark -… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“It was easy enough to write a sentence, but if you were going to create a work of art , the way… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“How I snuffed that Tartar air!--how I spurned that turnpike earth!--that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Whether one becomes famous or not, you have to be reminded of people like Melville, who for the last thirty years of… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“A ship doesn't look quite the same from inside, does it? A wise sailor,' Robert said, fanning his arms, 'will one time… — Diane Carey Copy Share Image
IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION: WHAT SCENES ONE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE FILMED Shakespeare in the part of the King's Ghost. The… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
We go to sea repeatedly from Melville's time on - and the image of men at sea, like the image of men… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
“Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The bible is very resonant. It has everything, creation, betrayal, lust, poetry, prophecy, sacrifice. All great things are in the bible and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know,… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“The heroic and often tragic stories of American whalemen were renowned. They sailed the world’s oceans and brought back tales filled with… — Eric Jay Dolin Copy Share Image
“MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville CHAPTER 1 Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely— having… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“To the bankrupt poet, to the jilted lover, to anyone who yearns to elude the doubt within and the din without, the… — Jacob M. Appel Copy Share Image
“When one reads, and re-reads, Moby Dick , it seems to me that one gets a more convincing, a more definite, impression… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“...it’s worth pointing out that [Herman Melville] worked in [the New York Custom House] as a deputy customs inspector between 1866 and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“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… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors. — Florence King Copy Share Image
“They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Melville's example demonstrates the wisdom of waiting to read the classics. Coming to a great book on your own after having accumulated… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on… — John Updike Copy Share Image
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![“She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his Greenwich Standard ...” quote by Dan Simmons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/253/dan-simmons-968_beauty_she-beatrice-alone-was-still-real-for-hi_3199766.jpg)
![“...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…” quote by Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/de7/sarah-vowell-2016_gilded-age_it-s-worth-pointing-out-that-herman-melv_1754176.jpg)
