Willa Cather quotes

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

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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