Willa Cather Quotes - Page 6

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• Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

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  Suffering, Divine, Knows

  Willa Cather (2010). “Vintage Cather”, p.174, Vintage

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• Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

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  Delight, Firsts, Moments

  Willa Cather (2016). “The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works”, p.244, Wildside Press LLC

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• Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?

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  Summer, Dream, Art

  Willa Cather (1986). “Uncle Valentine and Other Stories: Willa Cather's Uncollected Short Fiction, 1915-1929”, p.52, U of Nebraska Press

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• Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

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  Art, Cutting, Editing

  Willa Cather (2013). “Willa Cather On Writing”, p.67, Knopf

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• They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it.

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  Land, Rivers, Water

  Willa Cather (2008). “Death Comes for the Archbishop: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.189, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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.

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  Eye, Air, Blue

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

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• I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.

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  Beautiful, Life And Love, Winter

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• If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.

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  Writing, Years, Perfect

  Willa Cather (1970). “Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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• Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

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  May, Pages, Felt

  "My Ántonia".

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• A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

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  Should Have, Ideas, Imagination

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.26, Xist Publishing

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• Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

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  Past, Together Again, Understood

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.196, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.

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  Children, Husband, Grandmother

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.136, U of Nebraska Press

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• I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

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  Stars, Dark, Moon

  Willa Cather (1998). “Obscure Destinies”, p.175, U of Nebraska Press

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• There was only - spring itself, the throb of it, the light restlessness, the vital essence of it everywhere; in the sky, in the swift clouds, in the pale sunshine, and in the warm high wind - rising suddenly, sinking suddenly, impulsive ... If I had been tossed down blindfold on that red prairie, I should have known that it was spring.

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  Spring, Sunshine, Clouds

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.551, Simon and Schuster

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• Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.

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  Unique, Voice, Mind

  1936 Not Under Forty, 'Miss Jewett'.

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• All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.

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  Sports, Voice, Captivity

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.

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  Mother, Boys, Like Her

  Willa Cather (2008). “My Antonia (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.464, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

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  Luck, World, Bad Luck

  Willa Cather (2011). “My Mortal Enemy”, p.24, Vintage

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• Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to
  leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.

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  Dark, People, House

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.124, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.

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  Hate, Creative, Hatred

  The Song of the Lark pt. 1 (1915)

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• Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

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  Growth, Artistic, Truthfulness

  1915 The Song of the Lark, pt.6, ch.11.

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• A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

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  Attitude, Men, Long

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.77, U of Nebraska Press

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• This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth.

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  Summer, Lying, Reality

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.463, eBookIt.com

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• Beautiful women, whose beauty meant more than it said... was their brilliancy always fed by something coarse and concealed? Was that their secret?

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  Beautiful, Secret, Feds

  Willa Cather (2003). “A Lost Lady”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

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  Falling In Love, People, World

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.275, U of Nebraska Press

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