Willa Cather

Willa Cather

"Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons."
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"Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons."
Willa Cather My Ántonia
"I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep."
Willa Cather My Ántonia
"The land belongs to the future, Carl; that's the way it seems to me. How many of the names on the county clerk's plat will be there in fifty years? I might as well try to will the sunset over there to my brother's children. We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it--for a little while."
Willa Cather O Pioneers!
"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before."
Willa Cather O Pioneers!
"Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years."
Willa Cather O Pioneers!
"The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own."
Willa Cather
"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."
Willa Cather
"The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is."
Willa Cather
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."
Willa Cather
"Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
Willa Cather
"Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."
Willa Cather
"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
Willa Cather
"That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great."
Willa Cather
"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."
Willa Cather
"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."
Willa Cather
"Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again."
Willa Cather
"In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever."
Willa Cather
"Art it seems to me should simplify."
Willa Cather
"No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person."
Willa Cather
"I am enjoying to a full that period of reflection which is the happiest conclusion to a life of action."
Willa Cather
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