Willa Cather Quotes


When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. - Willa Cather


When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. - Willa Cather


To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. - Willa Cather


There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. - Willa Cather


The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. - Willa Cather


The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. - Willa Cather


The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. - Willa Cather


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


Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. - Willa Cather


Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. - Willa Cather


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