Willa Cather Quotes (15 quotations)
1. I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Cather
2. I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. - Willa Cather
3. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather
4. No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. - Willa Cather
5. Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. - Willa Cather
6. She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation. - Willa Cather
7. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. - Willa Cather
8. That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. - Willa Cather
9. The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather
10. The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. - Willa Cather
11. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather
12. 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 Cather
13. Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather
14. Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. - Willa Cather
15. With an apple I will astonish Paris. - Willa Cather
2. I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. - Willa Cather
3. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather
4. No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. - Willa Cather
5. Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. - Willa Cather
6. She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation. - Willa Cather
7. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. - Willa Cather
8. That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. - Willa Cather
9. The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather
10. The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. - Willa Cather
11. There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather
12. 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 Cather
13. Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather
14. Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. - Willa Cather
15. With an apple I will astonish Paris. - Willa Cather
