Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville

Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville
He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden – what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear! – Herman Melville
The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville