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• Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn’t either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for… — Susan Howe
• Herman Melville said that artists have to take a dive and either you hit your head on a rock and you split… — Maurice Sendak
• Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples… — 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,… — Maurice Sendak
• The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,'… — 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… — Vladimir Nabokov
• Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my… — Maurice Sendak
• My first attraction to writing novels was the plot, that almost extinct animal. Those novels I read which made me want to… — John Irving

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