It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you. Willa Cather More Quotes by Willa Cather More Quotes From Willa Cather People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know. Willa Cather lovers people enemy Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself. Willa Cather emotional giving drama Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it. Willa Cather going-away feelings people If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on. Willa Cather matter goes-on heart Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. Willa Cather depressing absence country You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you? Willa Cather people [Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters. Willa Cather men boys hands They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and all that it bore they treated with consideration; not attempting to improve it, they never desecrated it. Willa Cather land rivers water Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James. Willa Cather self action thinking From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas. Willa Cather skeletons sea feet Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger. Willa Cather kinship stronger building Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding. Willa Cather findings seeking different Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot. Willa Cather sacred brutality humanity Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time. Willa Cather time long country In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another; loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching. Willa Cather touching hate wings A watch is the most essential part of a lecture. Willa Cather lectures essentials watches youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed. Willa Cather betrayed likes hurt So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday. Willa Cather girl character book 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 Willa Cather answers easy people I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before. Willa Cather women wine writing
