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
great love
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
natural deals
It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.
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.
self-esteem women persons
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
vanity pity easy
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
prayer night sky
If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be.
dignity quiet protection
Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
personality storm horizon
William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
should-have ideas imagination
A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.
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.
storm calm
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
snakes bigs fellows
I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
sky earth world
Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.