Willa Cather Quotes

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather

Valentine's Day, Love, Great

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather

Best, Storm, Learn

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather

Great, Stupid, Difficult

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Cather

Heart, Dark, Another

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Willa Cather

Death, Die, Cold

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

Single, Dark, Sometimes

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Willa Cather

Great, Live, Dream

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather

Long, Country, Old

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather

Nature, Live, Seem

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
Willa Cather

Person, Another, Security

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Cather

Happen, Again, Memories

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

Great, Evening, Down

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

Human, Two, Before

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, Men, Everything

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Cather

Power, Made, Healing

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

Talent, Happens, Voice

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

Youth, Desire, Early

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Willa Cather

Give, Fact, Word

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather

Age, Before, Writer

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, Freedom, Matter

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather

Living, Try, Young

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather

Best, Character, Everything

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
Willa Cather

Great, Mind, Down

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Willa Cather

Old, Matter, Shoe

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

Desire, Process, Creation

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 7, 1873

Died: April 24, 1947

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