--- title: "15 Ifs Quotes By Willa Cather" description: "15 Ifs quotes by Willa Cather. Plus more from Willa Cather and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/willa-cather-634_ifs_miracles-surround-us-at-every-turn-if-we_395498.png" --- > [Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/miracles-surround-us-at-every-turn-if-we-but-sharpen-our-perceptions/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/willa-cather-634_ifs_miracles-surround-us-at-every-turn-if-we_395498.png) > [What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/what-if-what-if-life-itself-were-the-sweetheart/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/willa-cather-634_ifs_what-if-what-if-life-itself-were-the-swe_2541586.png) > [We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/we-all-like-people-who-do-things-even-if-we-only-see-their-faces-on/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b2/willa-cather-634_boxes_we-all-like-people-who-do-things-even-if_2704413.png) > [Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/thea-was-still-under-the-belief-that-public-opinion-could-be-placated/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcc/willa-cather-634_adaptability_thea-was-still-under-the-belief-that-pub_127107.png) > [If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/if-you-don-t-keep-and-guard-and-mature-your-force-and-above-all-have-2/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c6f/willa-cather-634_better-than-you_if-you-don-t-keep-and-guard-and-mature-y_2859274.png) > [Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/art-it-seems-to-me-should-simplify-finding-what-conventions-of-form/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee1/willa-cather-634_art_art-it-seems-to-me-should-simplify-findi_3165739.jpg) > [There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/there-seemed-to-be-nothing-to-see-no-fences-no-creeks-or-trees-no/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/370/willa-cather-634_country_there-seemed-to-be-nothing-to-see-no-fen_1582892.png) > [ \[Dawn\] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/dawn-is-always-such-a-forgiving-time-when-that-first-cold-bright/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41d/willa-cather-634_absolution_dawn-is-always-such-a-forgiving-time-whe_1147708.jpg) > [It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/it-has-long-been-a-tradition-among-novel-writers-that-a-book-must-end/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/667/willa-cather-634_book_it-has-long-been-a-tradition-among-novel_1172984.jpg) > [There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/there-was-only-spring-itself-the-throb-of-it-the-light-restlessness/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9d9/willa-cather-634_blindfolds_there-was-only-spring-itself-the-throb-o_2873179.png) > [ If \[the writer\] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/if-the-writer-achieves-anything-noble-anything-enduring-it-must-be-by/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ff/willa-cather-634_achieve_if-the-writer-achieves-anything-noble-an_3181044.jpg) > [If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/if-you-love-the-good-thing-vitally-enough-to-give-up-for-it-all-that/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d5/willa-cather-634_better-than-you_if-you-love-the-good-thing-vitally-enoug_2930441.jpg) > [Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/of-course-nebraska-is-a-storehouse-of-literary-material-everywhere-is/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad3/willa-cather-634_art_of-course-nebraska-is-a-storehouse-of-li_2321990.jpg) > [If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/if-the-street-life-not-the-whitechapel-street-life-but-that-of-the/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c65/willa-cather-634_breathing_if-the-street-life-not-the-whitechapel-s_565979.png) > [It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/it-is-scarcely-exaggeration-to-say-that-if-one-is-not-a-little-mad/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45d/willa-cather-634_balzac_it-is-scarcely-exaggeration-to-say-that_493205.png) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Willa Cather > [The end is nothing; the road is all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/the-end-is-nothing-the-road-is-all/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/of-all-the-bewildering-things-about-a-new-country-the-absence-of/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/success-is-less-interesting-than-struggle-there-is-great-pleasure-in/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/i-only-knew-the-schoolbooks-said-he-died-in-the-wilderness-of-a/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/have-the-last-word-ma-m-he-said-cheerfully-it-s-a-lady-s-privilege/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > ["More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/more-than-him-has-done-that-said-antonia-sadly-and-the-girls-murmured/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/nothing-mattered-but-writing-books-and-living-the-kind-of-life-that/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/money-and-office-and-success-are-the-consolations-of-impotence/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/but-she-still-had-that-something-which-fires-the-imagination-could/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/you-remember-how-homesick-i-used-to-get-and-what-long-talks-we-used/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/he-placed-this-book-in-my-grandmother-s-hands-looked-at-her/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/the-sincerity-of-feeling-that-is-possible-between-a-writer-and-a/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/one-realizes-that-human-relationships-are-the-tragic-necessity-of/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/our-tree-became-the-talking-tree-of-the-fairy-tale-legends-and/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) > [“Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/isn-t-it-queer-there-are-only-two-or-three-human-stories-and-they-go/) [Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willa-cather/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/willa-cather/#itemlist", "name": "15 Ifs Quotes By Willa Cather", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Willa Cather" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/miracles-surround-us-at-every-turn-if-we-but-sharpen-our-perceptions/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/willa-cather-634_ifs_miracles-surround-us-at-every-turn-if-we_395498.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/willa-cather-634_ifs_miracles-surround-us-at-every-turn-if-we_395498.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c0/willa-cather-634_ifs_miracles-surround-us-at-every-turn-if-we_395498.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.” — Willa Cather", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Willa Cather" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/what-if-what-if-life-itself-were-the-sweetheart/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/willa-cather-634_ifs_what-if-what-if-life-itself-were-the-swe_2541586.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/willa-cather-634_ifs_what-if-what-if-life-itself-were-the-swe_2541586.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ae/willa-cather-634_ifs_what-if-what-if-life-itself-were-the-swe_2541586.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?” — Willa Cather", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Willa Cather" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willa-cather/we-all-like-people-who-do-things-even-if-we-only-see-their-faces-on/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b2/willa-cather-634_boxes_we-all-like-people-who-do-things-even-if_2704413.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b2/willa-cather-634_boxes_we-all-like-people-who-do-things-even-if_2704413.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b2/willa-cather-634_boxes_we-all-like-people-who-do-things-even-if_2704413.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.” — Willa Cather", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; 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