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
stronger building kinship
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
imaginative personal-life
Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.
dark people house
Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
desire might way
In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
luck world bad-luck
Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
attitude men long
A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.
storm calm
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
land people pioneers
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
falling-in-love real mean
Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.
rain paris hard
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
two ifs
I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
snakes bigs fellows
I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
giving-up hate sight
If you love the good thing vitally, enough to give up for it all that one must give up, then you must hate the cheap thing just as hard. I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate! “A contempt that drives you through fire, makes you risk everything and lose everything, makes you a long sight better than you ever knew you could be.
mistake thinking hens
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for one of themselves.