What did Herman Melville mean by: Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful. - Herman Melville Author · USA Copy
+ I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. Feraz Zeid, November 3, 2022January 10, 2024, Herman Melville, Death, Fear, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Dinner, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Hands, Sound, Volume, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Friendship, Love, Sight, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Infinite, Subjects, Wisdom, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, America, Spirit, Western, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Edges, Literature, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
+ I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, Herman Melville, Christian, Kindness, 0 - Herman Melville Author · USA
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things. - William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
