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Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

«I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | Keywords: pumpkin, pumpkins, Something in the air
«There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | Keywords: creek, creeks, Hill Country, The Faint
«I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author)
«Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world, but here the earth is the floor of the sky.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | Keywords: Roof of the World
«Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author)
«Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author)
«To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author)
«We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | Keywords: cigar box, lid, lids
«If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | About: Youth
«What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.»
Author: Willa Sibert Cather (Author) | About: Art | Keywords: imprison, mould, The Shining
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