Herman Melville Quotes About Angels

Quotes about: Angels

• In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

  Herman Melville

  Angel, Night, Hands

  Herman Melville (2015). “Moby Dick”, p.452, Xist Publishing

• But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!

  Herman Melville

  Angel, Captains, Starting

  Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.292, OUP Oxford

• Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

  Herman Melville

  Angel

  Herman Melville (1962). “Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.98, University of Chicago Press

• All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of God did verily wed with our mothers, the irresistible daughters of Eve. Thus all generations are blended: and heaven and earth of one kin: the hierarchies of seraphs in the uttermost skies; the thrones and principalities in the zodiac; the shades that roam throughout space; the nations and families, flocks and folds of the earth; one and all, brothers in essence-oh, be we then brothers indeed! All things form but one whole.

  Herman Melville

  Daughter, Mother, Cousin

  Herman Melville (2012). “Mardi: And A Voyage Thither (Annotated Complete Edition)”, p.21, Jazzybee Verlag

• In placid hours well-pleased we dream Of many a brave unbodied scheme. But form to lend, pulsed life create, What unlike things must meet and mate: A flame to melt--a wind to freeze; Sad patience--joyous energies; Humility--yet pride and scorn; Instinct and study; love and hate; Audacity--reverence. These must mate, And fuse with Jacob's mystic heart, To wrestle with the angel--Art.

  Herman Melville

  Dream, Art, Hate

  Herman Melville, Robert C. Ryan, Hershel Parker (2009). “Published Poems: The Writings of Herman Melville”, p.280, Northwestern University Press

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