Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever stands forth his own inexorable self.

Herman Melville
Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
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A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.