Herman Melville Quotes About Rainbows

Quotes about: Rainbows

• Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.

  Herman Melville

  Health, Color, Differences

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

• Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?

  Herman Melville

  Nature, Orange, Rainbow

  1891 Billy Budd, Foretopman (first published1924), ch.21.

• Love's secrets, being mysteries, ever pertain to the transcendent and the infinite; and so they are as airy bridges, by which ourfurther shadows pass over into the regions of the golden mists and exhalations; whence all poetical, lovely thoughts are engendered, and drop into us, as though pearls should drop from rainbows.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Bridges, Rainbow

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2384, Delphi Classics

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