"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized……" — Edward Dahlberg
"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
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
57 Quotes by Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlberg has 57 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless…
-
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
-
There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the…
-
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck,…
-
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.
-
No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.
-
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against…
-
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either…
-
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before…
-
The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce…
-
I would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man.
-
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even…
See all 57 quotes by Edward Dahlberg »
More Atlantis Quotes
This quote is filed under Atlantis Quotes,
one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Said the condor to the preying mantis, we're gonna lose this place just like we lost Atlantis.
— Neil Young
-
Atlantis will rise again.
— Charles Olson
-
I want to fly a jet. I'd love to just be in the air and go mach 3 or mach…
— Kellan Lutz
-
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for…
— Hanna Rosin
-
Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work…
— Walter Moers
-
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
-
Have any of you taken a look out at Greece in the last, say, hour or so? (Hermes) What? Are…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
Atlantis: Fabled. Mystical. Golden. Mysterious. Glorious and magical. There are those who claim that it never was. But then there…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
-
Simple. Atlantis can't be found." He scoffed at her. " You're the second person to tell me that in less…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
-
Know, oh prince, that between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of…
— Robert E. Howard
-
Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must…
— Stephen King
See all 19 Atlantis Quotes »