The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not have been long forgotten. Willa Cather More Quotes by Willa Cather More Quotes From Willa Cather After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be. Willa Cather soul giving art Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. Willa Cather joy friendship men Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Willa Cather roots spring art Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. Willa Cather incentives hunger powerful Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in. Willa Cather pity masters way To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. Willa Cather notes talent artist For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters the civilized lies with which it is unable to cope, and the strong arm reaches out and takes by force what it cannot win by cunning. Willa Cather strong winning lying It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain. Willa Cather mad twenties littles No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end. Willa Cather pride expression mean Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient. Willa Cather tiny sports mean If the street life, not the Whitechapel street life, but that of the common but so-called respectable part of town is in any city more gloomy, more ugly, more grimy, more cruel than in London, I certainly don't care to see it. Sometimes it occurs to one that possibly all the failures of this generation, the world over, have been suddenly swept into London, for the streets are a restless, breathing, malodorous pageant of the seedy of all nations. Willa Cather this-generation breathing cities I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now. Willa Cather i-can I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. Willa Cather reading writing book The prayers of all good people are good. Willa Cather good-people prayer people 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. Willa Cather attitude men long Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing. Willa Cather creative new-york writing The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman. Willa Cather wisdom heart country A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one. Willa Cather shoes matter rooms 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. Willa Cather heat communication too-much If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky i felt erased, blotted out. I did not say my prayers that night: here, i felt what would be would be. Willa Cather prayer sky night
