All Willa Cather Quotes
- Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people… Anyone
- The end is nothing; the road is all. All
- Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself. Artist
- Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is… Cadence
- When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them. Afraid
- The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. Bred
- Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Art
- An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry. Artist
- 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… All
- Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He… Ever Trusts
- In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he was growing older.… Age
- There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not… All
- Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination… Ability
- In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever. Any
- Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them. Every Turn
- The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an… Blue
- The land belongs to the future. Belongs
- Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for… All
- It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional… Among
- "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. Antonia
- Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Anywhere
- All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'. All
- You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you? All
- If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on. Go
- Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies. Beauty