Willa Cather Quotes - Page 4

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• Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

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  Rose, Dies

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• Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

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  Art, Men, Ends

  "The Professor's House". Book by Willa Cather, 1925.

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• All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

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  Paris, Brave, Southern

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• Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

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  People, Feelings, Going Away

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1031, eBookIt.com

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• The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

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  Running, Silence, Emptiness

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.29, U of Nebraska Press

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• The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.

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  Land, Pioneers, Littles

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

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  Father, Home, Men

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.159, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

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  Country, Lying, Winter

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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• Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

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  Inspirational, Life, Achievement

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.30, U of Nebraska Press

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• I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

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  Country, Thinking, People

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

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  Two Friends, Silence, Pioneers

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

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  Art, Cutting, Editing

  Willa Cather (2013). “Willa Cather On Writing”, p.67, Knopf

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• Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.

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  Art, Keys, Decide Upon

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.123, U of Nebraska Press

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• If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

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  Prayer, Night, Sky

  Willa Cather (2006). “My Antonia - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.15, Prestwick House Inc

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• Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

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  Past, Together Again, Understood

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.196, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• 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.

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  Lying, Writing, Character

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.81, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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.

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  Healing, Eye, Voice

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.50, Vintage

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• Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.

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  Mean, Cities, Rolling

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.61, Xist Publishing

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• Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

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  Details, Extravagance, Too Much

  Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.173, Oxford University Press

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• The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.

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  Lakes, Doors, Land

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press

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• When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

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  People, Answers, Easy

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• In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

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  People, World, Pay

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

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• People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

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  People, Enemy, Lovers

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.72, Vintage

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• A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

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  Should Have, Ideas, Imagination

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.26, Xist Publishing

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