Quote by Willa Cather (One of Ours

“Her eye, her ear, were tuning forks, burning glasses, which caught the minutest refraction or echo of a thought or feeling … She heard a deeper vibration, a kind of composite echo, of all that the writer said, and did not say.” quote by Willa Cather (One of Ours — Download Open image

““Her eye, her ear, were tuning forks, burning glasses, which caught the minutest refraction or echo of a thought or feeling … She heard a deeper vibration, a kind of composite echo, of all that the writer said, and did not say.””

Willa Cather (One of Ours

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