Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Catherwas an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1873
CountryUnited States of America
Willa Cather quotes about
voice captivity wild-things
The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
kindness people moments
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.
natural deals
It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
dream men youth
To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.
inspirational summer nature
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
prayer broken soul
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
friendship men joy
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
growing-up children people
There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
life death spiritual
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
life wise niece
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
writing age fifteen
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
desire want way
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.
life beautiful truth
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
prayer people said
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers