Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Willa Sibert Catherwas an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 December 1873
CountryUnited States of America
artist secret artistry
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
art spring roots
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.
people answers easy
When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather
kindness people philanthropy
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
unique voice mind
Every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure, a cadence, a quality of voice that is exclusively the writer's own, individual, unique.
creativity artist world
Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
talking bird tree
Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
falling-in-love real mean
Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.
girl world would-be
If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
flower blow rose
Oh, this is the joy of the rose; That it blows, And goes.
inspirational-love men thinking
Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
art men ends
Art and religion -they are the same thing, in the end, of course- have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
vanity pity easy
It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.
art matter censorship
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.