WIST Quotations

Cather, Willa -- My Antonia, 1.2 (1918)

Dave — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:52:48 +0000

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

Willa Cather (1873-1947) American author [Wilella Silbert Cather]
My Antonia, 1.2 (1918)

Cather, Willa -- Shadows on the Rock (1931)

Dave — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:05:45 +0000

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 (1873-1947) American author [Wilella Silbert Cather]
Shadows on the Rock (1931)

Cather, Willa -- The Song of the Lark, Part VI, Ch. 11 (1915)

Dave — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:02:32 +0000

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Willa Cather (1873-1947) American author [Wilella Silbert Cather]
The Song of the Lark, Part VI, Ch. 11 (1915)