33 Quotations by Willa Cather
- 1. Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
- 2. Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stup ...
- 3. Craft: 'The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
- 4. Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
- 5. I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
- 6. I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
- 7. I tell you, there is no such thing as creative hate!
- 8. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
- 9. Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations s ...
- 10. No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
- 11. Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family -- but to a solitary an ...
- 12. Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- 13. Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
- 14. She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with ...
- 15. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
- 16. Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a sing ...
- 17. The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulterat ...
- 18. The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
- 19. The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
- 20. The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
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