Willa Cather Quotes


Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather Art 89
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 Intelligence 87
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Willa Cather Generations 85
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. Willa Cather Best 82
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. Willa Cather Art 81
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather death 81
The old man smiled. I shall not die of a cold my son. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather Death and dying 80
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. Willa Cather Ghastly 79
What was any art but a mold to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself- life hurrying past us and running away, to strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Willa Cather Art 77
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. Willa Cather Family 72
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. Willa Cather Afraid 72
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather Sunshine 71
Pittsburgh was even more vital more creative more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing. Willa Cather New york city 67
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather Death 66
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 Man 65
Paris is a hard place to leave even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. Willa Cather Paris 59
Old people who have felt blows and toil and known the worlds hard hand need even more than children do a womans tenderness. Willa Cather Woman 57
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. Willa Cather Achievement 56
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather Artist 55
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. Willa Cather Art 55
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. Willa Cather Words 54
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. Willa Cather age 52
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. Willa Cather Seasons 51
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather Day 51
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. Willa Cather Accord 51
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather Independence 49
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 Storytelling 48
Its all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh what about forgiving our friends Willa Cather Forgiveness 48
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. Willa Cather Neighbors 46
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot. Willa Cather Humanity 44
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. Willa Cather Women 43
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers Willa Cather Religious 43
I only knew the schoolbooks said he died in the wilderness of a broken heart. More than him has done that said Antonia sadly and the girls murmured assent. Willa Cather Heart 42
Only a Woman divine could know all that a woman can suffer. Willa Cather Woman 42
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. Willa Cather Talent 40
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Willa Cather Memory 37
And I advise ye to think well he told her Its better to be a stray dog in this world than a man without money. Ive tried it both ways and I know. A poor man stinks and God hates him. Willa Cather Wealth 36
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather Happy 31
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. Willa Cather Absence 30
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Willa Cather Aging 29
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 Art 27
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Willa Cather Nature 25
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