Willa Cather Quotes - Page 9

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• Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Self, Action

  Willa Cather (2014). “A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.

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  Way, Pity, Masters

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• Thirty or forty years ago, in one those grey towns along the Burlington railroad which are so much greyer to-day than they were then, there was a house well know from Omaha to Denver for its hospitality and for a certain charm of atmosphere.

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  Book, Years, House

  Willa Cather (2003). “A Lost Lady”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

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• One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.

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  Summer, Book, Garden

  Willa Cather (2011). “Death Comes for the Archbishop”, p.3, Vintage

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• I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.

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  Thinking, Fire, Teeth

  Willa Cather (2012). “My Ántonia”, p.174, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

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  Strong, Heart, Son

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• The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

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  Art, Freedom, Matter

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.26, U of Nebraska Press

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• Oh, this is the joy of the rose;
  That it blows,
  And goes.

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  Flower, Blow, Rose

  Willa Cather (1990). “April Twilights (1903): Poems”, p.7, U of Nebraska Press

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• Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

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  New York, Writing, Creative

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• One may have staunch friends in one's own family, but one seldom has admirers.

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  Family, May, Admirer

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.42, Courier Corporation

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• In a few hours one could cover that incalculable distance; from the winter country and homely neighbours, to the city where the air trembled like a tuning-fork with unimaginable possibilities.

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  Country, Distance, Winter

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.20, Vintage

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• Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.

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  Ruined, Publishers

  Willa Cather, Marilee Lindemann (2008). “O Pioneers!”, p.172, Oxford University Press

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

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  Girl, Heart, Done

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

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• Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

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  Play, Envy, Loyal

  Willa Cather (2011). “Lucy Gayheart”, p.77, Vintage

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• Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

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  Different, Findings, Seeking

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations.

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  Breathing, Cities, This Generation

  "Willa Cather in Europe". Book by Willa Cather, 1956.

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• An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.

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  Artist, Secret, Artistry

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Essential Willa Cather Collection”, p.1799, eBookIt.com

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• 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.

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  Brother, Book, Eye

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

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• One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.

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  Book, Years, Trying

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.4, Xist Publishing

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• Dr. Howard Archie had just come up from a game of pool with the Jewish clothier and two traveling men who happened to be staying overnight in Moonstone.

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  Book, Men, Games

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.182, Simon and Schuster

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• So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.

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  Girl, Book, Character

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.59, U of Nebraska Press

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• The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

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  Quality, Analysis, Firsts

  Willa Cather (2013). “Not Under Forty”, p.74, Knopf

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• To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

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  Artist, Talent, Notes

  Willa Cather (2013). “Not Under Forty”, p.47, Knopf

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• It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain.

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  Mad, Twenties, Littles

  Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press

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• The prayers of all good people are good.

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  Prayer, People, Good People

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.536, Simon and Schuster

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