Willa Cather Quotes

Art it seems to me should simplify.

No one can builu her security upon the nobleness of another person.

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

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little.

Don't you feel that at this rate there isn't much in it? In what? In living at all, going on as we do. What do we get out of it? Take a day like this: you waken up in the morning and you're glad to be alive; it's a good enough day for anything, and you feel sure something will happen. Well, whether it's a workday or a holiday, it's all the same in the end. At night you go to bed - nothing has happened.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

Most beautiful of all was the tarnished gold of the elms, with a little brown in it, a little bronze, a little blue, even-- a blue like amethyst, which made them melt into the azure haze with a kind of happiness, a harmony of mood that filled the air with content.