Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember. ✨ The Complete No…

Herman Melville
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Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember. ✨ The Complete Novels of Herman Melville.
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The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior … ▶
I feel that the Godhead is broken up like the bread at the Supper, and that we are the pieces. Hence this infinite fraternity of feeling. ✨ Herman Melville, Lynn Horth (1993). Correspondence, p.212, … ▶
To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ✨ Moby Dick ch. 104 (1851)
Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound. ✨ Herman Melville (1970). White-jacket: Or, The World in a Man-of-war, p.400, Northwestern University Press
So, when on one side you hoist in Locke's head, you go over that way; but now, on the other side, hoist in Kant's and you come back again; but in very poor plight. Thus, some minds for ever keep trim … ▶

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