Quotes by Willa Cather
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. 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.
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
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.
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
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