Reads tagged with “Herman Melville”
You Are a Wonder, You Are a Nobody, You Are an Ever-Drifting Ship: Melville on the Mystery of What Makes Us Who We Are
“There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause… We trace the round again; and are… Ifs eternally.”
Patti Smith’s Imaginative Remedy for Insomnia
Soporific shadow theater of the mind, inspired by Melville.
Figuring
A book.
Mocha Dick: The Story of the Real-Life Whale That Inspired Moby-Dick, Illustrated
“Some men sat stone-faced. Some shook.”
Herman Melville on Writing and His Daily Routine
“A book in a man’s brain is better off than a book bound in calf — at any rate it is safer from criticism.”
The Value of Being Uncomfortable: Herman Melville on Privation as a Portal to Appreciation and Aliveness
“To enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.”
Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds.”
Maurice Sendak’s Rare, Sensual Illustrations for Herman Melville’s Greatest Commercial Failure and Most Personally Beloved Book
“The strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.”
Herman Melville on Art
On the mystical mastery of wrestling with the angel.
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