Willa Cather

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

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

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

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

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.

A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never goes out of my life. I talk to him and consult him all the time. The older I grow, the better I know him and the more I understand him.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.