Willa Cather Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

  Willa Cather

  Healing, Eye, Voice

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.50, Vintage

• Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

  Willa Cather

  Inspiration, Eye, Artist

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

• Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Believe, Eye

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press

• When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

  Willa Cather

  Eye, Flesh, Spirit

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!”, p.224, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

  Willa Cather

  Brother, Book, Eye

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.661, Simon and Schuster

• The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

  Willa Cather

  Eye, Air, Blue

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.27, Xist Publishing

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