Willa Cather

All the intelligence and talent in the world can’t make a singer. The voice is…

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

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great…

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist…

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from…

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces…

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to…

Where there is great love, there are always wishes…

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

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live…

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm…

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters…