Quotes by Melville, Herman

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great. >>

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand! >>

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then >>

Quotations about Originality

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is >>

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. >>

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable. >>

But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

Melville, Herman