Herman Melville Quotes

11 Herman Melville quotes by 9 unique authors

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… — Susan Howe
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… — Maurice Sendak
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. — Edward Dahlberg
As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease. — Nathaniel Philbrick
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. — Harold Bloom
You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These… — Maurice Sendak
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… — Jorge Luis Borges
Or why you are wearing a picture of Santa Clause on you shirts, but-” “It’s Herman Melville. — Daniel Handler
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… — Vladimir Nabokov
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… — Maurice Sendak
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… — John Irving

Who Wrote These Herman Melville Quotes

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