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Willa Cather quotes about life

American Author December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947

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I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and love. They can't help it. Poeple come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter. Willa Cather
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not even in the quietest of country towns; and they have to grow up, whether they will or no. That is what their elders are always forgetting. Willa Cather
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her... Willa Cather
I was thinking", he answered absently, "about Euripides; how, when he was an old man, he went and lived in a cave by the sea, and it was thought queer at the time. It seems that houses had become insupportable to him. I wonder whether it was because he had observed women so closely all his life. Willa Cather
Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him. Willa Cather
Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence came and went against a background that held together. Willa Cather
I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things she had lost, *but whose inner glow has faded*. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish..."
She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant. Willa Cather
What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mold in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "how easy it would be to dream one's life out in some cleft in..."
...how easy it would be to dream one's life out in some cleft in the world. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life..."
Montaigne says somewhere that in early youth the joy of life lies in the feet. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She..."
It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the foundation of early races. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "The world is little, people are little, human life is little...."
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing? desire. Willa Cather
Willa Cather quote: "I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right..."
I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two! Willa Cather

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