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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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