![]() ![]() ![]() But he knew it was original and he understood that it was good. “ Moby Dick proved hard and exhausting to write. They are friends and friendly they guide him to prey,Įyes and brains to the dotard lethargic and dull, In white triple tiers of glittering gates,Īnd there find a haven when peril’s abroad, The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,įrom his saw-pit of mouth, from his charnel of maw, Oh, and I included a bit from a correspondence I had with a certain gentleman I was once in love with, where we covered the chapter from Moby Dick “The Whiteness of the Whale” in our email exchanges. They come from everywhere – from reviews of Moby Dick when it first came out (baffled, for the most part) – to John Huston’s comment on it, when directing the film – to Hart Crane’s stunning poem about Melville’s “tomb”. Moby-Dick is one of my all-time favorite books – so I figured I wouldn’t just re-hash that old territory – but compile here 5,000,000 quotes about Melville. Herman Melville was born on this day in 1819. ![]()
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