So I really began as a failed poet - although when I first wanted to be a writer I learned to write prose by reading poetry.
From my music training I knew that some Spanish rhythms apart 5/4 is a...
I write poetry in order to live more fully.
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling much curious learning in the literature of the subject and above all an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
