Willa Cather Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Giving, People

  "Four Letters: Escapism" (1936)

• After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Giving, Soul

  "The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902".

• 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

• [Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Passion, Exercise

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.331, eBookIt.com

• The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.

  Willa Cather

  Distance, Thinking, Giving

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.189, Courier Corporation

• If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

  Willa Cather

  Giving, Noble, Achieve

  Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

• If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!
  “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.

  Willa Cather

  Giving Up, Hate, Fire

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1481, eBookIt.com

• Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.

  Willa Cather

  Drama, Emotional, Giving

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.50, U of Nebraska Press

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