Quotes of Willa Cather - somelinesforyou

“ No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ”

- Willa Cather

“ No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. ”

- Willa Cather

“ I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ”

- Willa Cather

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

- Willa Cather

“ Where there is great love, there are always miracles. ”

- Willa Cather

“ There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ”

- Willa Cather

“ There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ”

- Willa Cather

“ There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ”

- Willa Cather

“ There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ”

- Willa Cather

“ There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ”

- Willa Cather

“ There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Where there is great love, there are always miracles. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Where there is great love, there are always miracles. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years. ”

- Willa Cather

“ 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. ”

- Willa Cather

“ That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. ”

- Willa Cather

“ 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. ”

- Willa Cather

“ I guess everybody thinks about old times, even the happiest people. ”

- Willa Cather

“ One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of the Church seem to me not to rest so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ”

- Willa Cather

“ Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ”

- Willa Cather

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

- Willa Cather

“ One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of the Church seem to me not to rest so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ”

- Willa Cather

“ 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. ”

- Willa Cather

“ 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 Cather

“ Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine. ”

- 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

“ 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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