Best Willa Cather Words
- People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface. Finds
- The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't… All
- The earth was warm under me, and warm as I crumbled it through my fingers...I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did… Air
- Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not… Always Forgetting
- Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never… All
- Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived. Ah
- Prayers said by good people are always good prayers Always Good
- 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. Bring
- Success is never so interesting as struggle Inspirational
- There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. All
- There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and… Ardor
- 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… All
- Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing. Birthplace
- The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. Begins
- Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world All
- It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our… All
- Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in… Blood
- People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. Enemies
- 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… All
- A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is… Accustomed
- In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely… Alone
- Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm. Best
- 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… Alexandra
- They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and… All
- Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness. Blow
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