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You should not be discouraged; one doe not die of a cold,

You should not be discouraged; one doe not die of a cold," the priest said to the bishop. The old man smiled. "I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. - Willa Cather Quotes

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

American Author

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. - Willa Cather Quotes

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.

American Author Art

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. - Willa Cather Quotes

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

American Author Country

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever. - Willa Cather Quotes

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values. - Willa Cather Quotes

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.

Business Writers And Writing

She heard him give his name, and came forward holding out her hand.

She heard him give his name, and came forward holding out her hand. "Is it you, indeed, Professor Wilson?"

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. - Willa Cather Quotes

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

American Author

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. - Willa Cather Quotes

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.

American Author

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count. - Willa Cather Quotes

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole. - Willa Cather Quotes

[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.

That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. - Willa Cather Quotes

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

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon. - Willa Cather Quotes

I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind - Willa Cather Quotes

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind

Kind

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. - Willa Cather Quotes

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

American Author

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame. - Willa Cather Quotes

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.

Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years - Willa Cather Quotes

Isn't it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them - Willa Cather Quotes

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid. - Willa Cather Quotes

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange!. - Willa Cather Quotes

Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange!.

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. - Willa Cather Quotes

There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person - Willa Cather Quotes

No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. - Willa Cather Quotes

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

Alcohol And Alcoholism

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. - Willa Cather Quotes

All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world, but here the earth is the floor of the sky. - Willa Cather Quotes

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world, but here the earth is the floor of the sky.

Earth

Where are the loves that we have loved beforeWhen once we are alone, and shut the door? - Willa Cather Quotes

Where are the loves that we have loved beforeWhen once we are alone, and shut the door?

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they're in love with somebody. - Willa Cather Quotes

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they're in love with somebody.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. - Willa Cather Quotes

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather Quotes

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. - Willa Cather Quotes

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

American Author

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. - Willa Cather Quotes

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude. - Willa Cather Quotes

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. - Willa Cather Quotes

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

American Author

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more. - Willa Cather Quotes

Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. - Willa Cather Quotes

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

American Author

That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great. - Willa Cather Quotes

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

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. - Willa Cather Quotes

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

American Author

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. - Willa Cather Quotes

I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. - Willa Cather Quotes

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off. - Willa Cather Quotes

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree knows everything I ever think of when I sit here. When I come back to it, I never have to remind it of anything; I begin just where I left off.

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, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves - Willa Cather Quotes

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, puzzled and in the dark like ourselves

The end is nothing; the road is all. - Willa Cather Quotes

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious. - Willa Cather Quotes

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.

The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change. - Willa Cather Quotes

The universal human yearning for something permanent, enduring, without shadow of change.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. - Willa Cather Quotes

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

American Author Love Valentine's Day

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman - Willa Cather Quotes

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather Quotes

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

American Author

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be. - Willa Cather Quotes

The supreme virtue in art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives it the right to be.

Art

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there -- that, we may say, is created. - Willa Cather Quotes

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there -- that, we may say, is created.

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. 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. - Willa Cather Quotes

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. 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.

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