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
happiness spiritual purpose
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.
artist born harder
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
extravagance too-much details
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
life ends
The end is nothing; the road is all.
suffering divine knows
Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
youth
It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
firsts delight moments
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
children husband grandmother
One realizes that human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. In those simple relationships of loving husband and wife, affectionate sisters, children and grandmother, there are innumerable shades of sweetness and anguish which make up the pattern of our lives day by day, though they are not down in the list of subjects from which the conventional novelist works.
rose dies
Oh, that's the beauty of the rose, that it blossoms and dies.
prayer people good-people
The prayers of all good people are good.
fate people feelings
Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.
powerful incentives hunger
Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.
artist talent notes
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
heart matter goes-on
If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.