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Willa Cather quotes about great

American Author December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947

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Willa Cather quote: "Where there is great love, there are always wishes."
Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "Where there is great love, there are always miracles."
Where there is great love, there are always miracles. Willa Cather
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. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. Willa Cather
But the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth had become so bitter; because he felt that men were too weak to make any mark here, that the land wanted to be let alone, to preserve its own fierce strength, its peculiar, savage kind of beauty, its uninterrupted mournfulness. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and..."
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and..."
That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. Willa Cather
There were no clouds, the sun was going down in a limpid, gold-washed sky. Just as the lower edge of the red disk rested on the high fields against the horizon, a great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun. We sprang to our feet, straining our eyes toward it. In a moment we realized what it was. On some upland farm, a plough had been left standing in the field. The sun was sinking just behind it. Magnified across the distance by the horizontal light, it stood out... Willa Cather
In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in. Willa Cather
He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of New Mexico. It was like a great violet velvet mantle thrown down in the sun; all the shades that the dyers and weavers of Italy and France strove for through centuries, the violet that is full of rose colour and is yet not lavender; the blue that becomes almost pink and then retreats again into sea-dark purple—the true Episcopal colour... Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but..."
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. Willa Cather
To be sure, the Bishop was a little theatrical in his humility, as he had been in his grandeur; but that was his way, Auclair reflected, and, after all, nobody can help his way. If a man admits his mistakes, that is a great deal... Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the..."
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather
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
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

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