Herman Melville

Moby Dick

Death of a Whale

And now abating in his flurry, the whale once more rolled out into view; surging from side to side; spasmodically dilating and contracting his spout hole, with sharp, cracking, agonising respirations, At last, gush after gush of glotted red gore, as if it had been the purple lees of red wine, shot into the frighted air; and falling back again, ran dripping down his motionless flanks into the sea. His heart had burst!

*

[…thou surrenders to a hypo, Ishmael !!]

Shelley

To a Skylark

Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

Catull

Lugete, o veneres cupidinesque,
et quantum est hominum venustiorum:
Passer mortuus est meae puellae,
Passer deliciae meae puellae,
Quem plus illa oculis suis amabat.

Baudelaire
Le Chat

Viens, mon beau chat, sur mon cœur amoureux ;
Retiens les griffes de ta patte,
Et laisse-moi plonger dans tes beaux yeux,
Mèlés de métal et d’agate.

Schopenhauer
Hund und Mensch

Antistrohe zum 73. Venezianischen Epigramme

Wundern darf es mich nicht,
dass manche die Hunde
verleumden, denn es be-
schaemet zu oft leider
die Menschen den Hund.

Laurie Anderson about her dog ‚Lolabelle‘ and ‚Heart of a Dog‘

A dog lover, Anderson says what she prizes most about the animals is their empathy: “They are very skilled at studying us,” she says. “They like us. I find that inspiring. It’s surprising how many humans don’t actually like each other all that much. Lots to learn from dogs.”