Willa Cather Quotes - Page 9

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• Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

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  Rain, Paris, Hard

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, U of Nebraska Press

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• This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.

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  Running, Horse, Land

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.

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  Sports, Mean, Tiny

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, U of Nebraska Press

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• William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

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  Personality, Storm, Horizon

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

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  Desire, Quests, Might

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.

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  Vanity, Pity, Easy

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.73, Wildside Press LLC

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• The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten.

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  Artist, Men, Long

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.26, U of Nebraska Press

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• Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

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  Stronger, Building, Kinship

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.270, Vintage

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• Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.

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  Drama, Emotional, Giving

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.50, U of Nebraska Press

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• I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.

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  Snakes, Bigs, Fellows

  Willa Cather (2013). “My Antonia Thrift Study Edition”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

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  Book, Fifteen, Firsts

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• 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, Character, Creative

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

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• Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.

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  Way, Pity, Masters

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• Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.

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  Thinking, Self, Action

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

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  Skeletons, Sea, Feet

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, U of Nebraska Press

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• In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.

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  Book, Stills, Lucy

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.3, Vintage

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• Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.

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  Book, Years, House

  Willa Cather (2003). “A Lost Lady”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

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• One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

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  Summer, Book, Garden

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.3, Vintage

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• I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.

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  Thinking, Fire, Teeth

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.174, Courier Corporation

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• But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.

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  Strong, Heart, Son

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• The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

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  Art, Freedom, Matter

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.26, U of Nebraska Press

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• Oh, this is the joy of the rose;
  That it blows,
  And goes.

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  Flower, Blow, Rose

  Willa Cather (1990). “April Twilights (1903): Poems”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

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• Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

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  New York, Writing, Creative

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• Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

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  Ruined, Publishers

  Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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• Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

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  Brother, Book, Eye

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

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