Quote by Herman Melville

"He who cannot understand how to put his thoughts on ice skates should not try the frozen pond of prose."

Herman Melville
Novelist American 1819–1891

More from Herman Melville

"It is the privilege of the reader to slow down the author who goes too fast."
"Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth."
"To know how to say what others only think is to be a poet."
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

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