Willa Cather Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, World, Earth

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.232, Vintage

• The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Spring, Reflection

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.200, Vintage

• There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

  Willa Cather

  Country, Giving, Earth

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

• I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

  Willa Cather

  Success, Sleep, Air

  "My Antonia". Book by Willa Cather, 1918.

• If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.

  Willa Cather

  Prayer, Night, Sky

  Willa Cather (2006). “My Antonia - Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.15, Prestwick House Inc

• From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.

  Willa Cather

  Light, Two, Ears

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

• The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

  Willa Cather

  Heart, Too Much, Alive

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.129, Xist Publishing

• [Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.

  Willa Cather

  Sky, Water, Forgiving

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

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