Willa Cather - Best Quotes

Power

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

Nature

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Willa Cather

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Intelligence

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport like the silver fox. It happens.

Willa Cather

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport like the silver fox. It happens.

Happiness

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Willa Cather

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Great

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Willa Cather

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Great

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist the great artist knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist the great artist knows how difficult it is.

Great

Where there is great love there are always wishes.

Willa Cather

Where there is great love there are always wishes.

Freedom

The condition every art requires is not so much freedom from restriction as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Willa Cather

The condition every art requires is not so much freedom from restriction as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Family

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Willa Cather

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

Death

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Willa Cather

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Best

There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.

Willa Cather

There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.

Age

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Willa Cather

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

Hot Quotes

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Willa Cather

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport like the silver fox. It happens.

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist the great artist knows how difficult it is.

Where there is great love there are always wishes.

The condition every art requires is not so much freedom from restriction as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

There are some things you learn best in calm and some in storm.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.