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
human shadow universal yearning
The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change.
entirely human intimate irregular quality
That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
faces people
We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.
great love
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
struggle interesting
Success is never so interesting as struggle
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.
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.
prayer people said
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
shadow together individual
Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together.
forgiveness fall dark
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.
ego half pulling-away
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.