Herman Melville

Herman Melville (1819 - 1891) was a US novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

Wisdom & Quotes

• Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

- Moby-Dick

• I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

- Moby Dick

• Call me Ishmael.

- Moby Dick, opening line

James Russell Lowell