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Willa Cather Facts
Willa Cather Is Born On December 7, 1873
Willa Cather Is Born In Back Creek Valley, United States
Willa Cather Nationality Is American
Willa Cather Zodiac Sign Is Sagittarius
Willa Cather Zodiac Symbol Is Archer
Willa Cather Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Water
Willa Cather Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Rooster
Willa Cather Occupation Is Author
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Willa Cather Quotes
A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, its better than a new one. - Willa Cather Quotes
All the intelligence and talent in the world cant make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It cant be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. - Willa Cather Quotes
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. - Willa Cather Quotes
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. - Willa Cather Quotes
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. - Willa Cather Quotes
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Cather Quotes
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. - Willa Cather Quotes
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. - Willa Cather Quotes
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather Quotes
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. - Willa Cather Quotes
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. - Willa Cather Quotes
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 Quotes
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. - Willa Cather Quotes
She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight, pulsing with ardor and anticipation. - Willa Cather Quotes
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. - Willa Cather Quotes
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. - Willa Cather Quotes
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. - Willa Cather Quotes
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. - Willa Cather Quotes
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 Quotes
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather Quotes
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor. - Willa Cather Quotes
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to ones own. - Willa Cather Quotes
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. - Willa Cather Quotes
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. - Willa Cather Quotes
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. - Willa Cather Quotes
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. - Willa Cather Quotes
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. - Willa Cather Quotes
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. - Willa Cather Quotes
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. - Willa Cather Quotes
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather Quotes
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