Inspirational, thoughtful, interesting, entertaining quotes by famous American writer Willa Cather

Willa Siebert Cather (born December 7, 1873, Gore, Virginia), American author and storyteller, who won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, died on April 24, 1947 in Park Avenue, United States. She is best known for her novels based on life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Antonia. Here are some inspirational, thoughtful, interesting and entertaining quotes from Willa Cather.

Now I understood that that was the only way to bring us together again. What we had lost was the precious, inaccessible past we had.

Humanity! Wherever humanity has made the most difficult beginning and has pulled itself out of mere cruelty is a sacred place.

Man! There are only two or three human stories, and they repeat themselves as intensely as if they had never happened before.

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

Another's heart is always like a dark forest, no matter how close one is to one's heart.

The world is small, people are small, human life is short. There is only one big thing – desire.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

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

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like a pumpkin, and I didn't want to be anything more than that. I was completely happy. Perhaps we feel the same way when we die and become part of something whole, whether it's the sun and the wind, or goodness and wisdom. At any rate, that is happiness, merging into something complete and great. When it comes to someone, it comes as naturally as sleep.

It is very good to ask us to forgive our enemies, our enemies can never do us much harm. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

People go through such pain only once. The pain returns, but its surface becomes harder.

Some memories are realities and better than anything that could ever happen to anyone again.

The old man smiled, I will not die of cold, son. I will die even while I am alive.

The fact that I was a girl never harmed my ambitions to become Pope or Emperor.

Men travel faster now, but I don't know whether they lead to better things.

I like trees because they seem more dedicated to their way of life than anything else. I feel as if this tree knows everything that I ever think while sitting here. When I come back to it, I never need to remind it of anything, I just pick up where I left off.

Let your imagination take you out of the ground beneath your feet.

I was thinking as I looked at her how little it mattered—about her teeth, for example. I know many women who have kept everything they lost, but whose inner glow has faded. And no matter what went on, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.

Success is never as interesting as the struggle.

What was any art but a mold to capture for a moment the shining illusory element which is life itself – life passing us fast and running away, strong to stop, to lose. Very cute for.

I wanted you as a sweetheart, or a wife, or my mother, or my sister – a woman can be anything to a man. Your thought is a part of my mind, you influence my likes and dislikes, all my interests hundreds of times, even when I don't realize it. You are truly a part of me.

There was nothing but land, not a country at all, but the stuff of which countries are made.

Artistic development is, more than anything else, a refinement of the sense of truth. Fools believe that being truthful is easy, only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

You know, people can be lovers and enemies at the same time.

Only a woman, the divine, can know all that a woman can endure.

-Willa Cather

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