Willa Sibert Cather Quotes

   1873 - 1947

US novelist, poet and journalist. Her best-known books are the trilogy  on  pioneering  life,  O  Pioneers!  (1913),  The  Song  of  the Lark (1915) and MyAntonia (1918).

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

1918  My  Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

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

Willa Sibert Cather
— 1913  O Pioneers!, pt.1, ch.5.

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

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— 1913  O Pioneers!, p.2, ch.4.

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

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— 1913  O Pioneers!, pt.2, ch.8.

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Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

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— 1915  The Song of the Lark, pt.6, ch.11.

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

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— 1922  One of Ours, bk.2, ch.6.

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Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.

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— 1927  Death Comes to the Archbishop, prologue.

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The irregularand intimate qualityof things made entirely by the human hand.

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— 1927  Death Comes to the Archbishop, bk.1, ch.3.

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Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

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— 1931Shadows On The Rock, bk.3, ch.5.

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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

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— 1936  In Commonweal,17  Apr.

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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.

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— 1936  Not Under Forty, 'Miss  Jewett'.

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When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

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— 1926  Of kindness. My Mortal Enemy.

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