Willa Cather

Born :7 December 1873

Tribute :24 April 1947

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Willa Cather born on 7th December 1873, and passed away on 24th April 1947, leaving behind a legacy that continues to inspire generations. Over the past 73 years, we have thoughtfully curated a selection of 34 powerful, inspirational, and motivational quotes - carefully handpicked from an extensive archive of life lessons and timeless wisdom. This legendary quote writer was born in american and went on to share won inspiring words with the world, leaving behind a global legacy that transcends borders.

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Quotes of Willa Cather

Timeless words and powerful thoughts from Willa Cather - discover the wisdom, inspiration, and voice behind the quotes that continue to resonate

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

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.

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

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

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.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

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.

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.