Willa Sibert Cather Quotes


Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. - Willa Sibert Cather


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


Where there is great love, there are always wishes. - Willa Sibert Cather


Where are the loves that we have loved before
When once we are alone, and shut the door? - Willa Sibert Cather


When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them. - Willa Sibert Cather


Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there -- that, we may say, is created. - Willa Sibert Cather


What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. - Willa Sibert Cather


Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count. - Willa Sibert Cather


Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. - Willa Sibert Cather


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