Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm. Willa Cather More Quotes by Willa Cather More Quotes From Willa Cather The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. Willa Cather nature heart love Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more. Willa Cather fate feelings people Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. Willa Cather foolish-man exaggeration-is men When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. Willa Cather want desire looks Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Willa Cather moments memories reality Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. Willa Cather fifteen age writing Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. Willa Cather rolling cities mean 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, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. Willa Cather forgiveness dark fall The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. Willa Cather energy animal world To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that. Willa Cather youth dream men 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. Willa Cather voice eye healing Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody. Willa Cather home men father Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. Willa Cather pulling-away ego half The world is always full of brilliant youth which fades into grey and embittered middle age: the first flowering takes everything. The great men are those who have developed slowly, or who have been able to survive the glamour of their early florescence and to go on learning from life. Willa Cather age goes-on men Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact. Willa Cather giving people thinking I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather spiritual life death Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton. Willa Cather skeletons blood thinking [Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield infinite variety, pleasure, and distraction, and to contribute to their lives what the arts and the pleasurable exercise of the intellect gives to less limited and less intense idealists. Willa Cather passion exercise art Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself. Willa Cather creativity artist world People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. Willa Cather easier people world
