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.
faces people
We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.
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.
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.
self-esteem women persons
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
fate punishment wicked
Even the wicked get worse than they deserve.
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.
humanity sacred brutality
Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.
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.