Willa Cather Quotes - Page 3

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• The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life.

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  Men, Age, Goes On

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.116, U of Nebraska Press

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• 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.

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  Success, Sleep, Air

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

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• It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

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  Dream, World, Matter

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.658, Wildside Press LLC

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• People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

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  People, World, Easier

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

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  Lying, Moon, Blue

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.782, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.

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  Rose, Dies

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• Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

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  Fate, People, Feelings

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.27, Vintage

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• Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.

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  Shadow, Together, Individual

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.894, eBookIt.com

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• All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

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  Paris, Brave, Southern

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• There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

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  Children, Growing Up, People

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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• Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.

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  Powerful, Incentives, Hunger

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.134, Wildside Press LLC

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• life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

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  Life, Running, Sweet

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

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  Country, Thinking, People

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

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  Art, Men, Ends

  "The Professor's House". Book by Willa Cather, 1925.

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• 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.

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  Prayer, Night, Sky

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

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• Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

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  Country, Lying, Winter

  1918 My Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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• What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

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  What If, Sweetheart, Ifs

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.155, Vintage

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• The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

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  Prayer, Broken, Grace

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.146, Vintage

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

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  Life, Beautiful, Truth

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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• When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

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  People, Answers, Easy

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• Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.

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  Art, Keys, Decide Upon

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.123, U of Nebraska Press

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• The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

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  Two Friends, Silence, Pioneers

  Willa Cather (2009). “O Pioneers!: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

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  Memories, Reality, Years

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

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• There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

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  Country, Stars, Land

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

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  Men, Faster, Knows

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.313, ReadHowYouWant.com

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