Willa Cather Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

  Willa Cather

  Love, Nature, Heart

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.93, U of Nebraska Press

• 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. His first consciousness was a sense of the light dry wind blowing in through the windows, with the fragrance of hot sun and sage-brush and sweet clover; a wind that made one's body feel light and one's heart cry 'To-day, to-day,' like a child's.

  Willa Cather

  Love, Sweet, Children

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.293, ReadHowYouWant.com

• But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.

  Willa Cather

  Strong, Heart, Son

• If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

  Willa Cather

  Heart, Goes On, Matter

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

• The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

  Willa Cather

  Wisdom, Country, Heart

  O Pioneers! pt. 1, ch. 5 (1913)

• 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

• "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

  Willa Cather

  Girl, Heart, Done

  Willa Cather (2006). “My Antonia”, p.177, 1st World Publishing

• The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

  Willa Cather

  Notebook, Attitude, Heart

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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