Atlantis Quote by Edward Dahlberg

“But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body…

— Plato

“The great writers, Conrad, Maugham and Melville, spent only a few years in the South Seas, but their memory of those waters was indestructible;…

— James A. Michener

There is always something of the writer in the work but I don't think Melville had to be swallowed by a whale to write…

— Michael Stipe

“Herman Melville (August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet. His earliest novels were bestsellers,…

— Herman Melville

“been forgotten, but his longest novel, Moby-Dick — largely considered a failure during his lifetime, and responsible for Melville's drop in popularity — was…

— Herman Melville

“In reality it was like this: Earth was colonized by the Zycronites, who developed the ability to travel from one space dimension to another…

— Margaret Atwood

“With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! that was long ago.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

— Samuel Johnson

“Melville’s last published novel, The Confidence-Man (1857), a notably “talky” text that offers a useful allegory of the very”

— Sianne Ngai

We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now…

— Edward Abbey

“I have often been mildly amused when I think that the great American novel was not written about New England or Chicago. It was…

— James A. Michener

We shall not read it for its sociological insights, which are non-existent, nor as science fiction, because it has a general air of implausibility;…

— Peter Medawar