Did Herman Melville say “It is not down in any map; true places never are”?
SAPIR 861 · QUOTE CHECK
Did Herman Melville say “It is not down in any map; true places never are”?
Found word for word. Yes. The text appears in works attributed to Herman Melville. Source and location below.
Queequeg was a native of Rokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale — Herman Melville, CHAPTER 12. Biographical. · ¶286 · Public domain (US), Project Gutenberg #2701 · source
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0