Followers

13 March 2013

Willa Cather 1873 - 1947


*The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.

*Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

*Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

* 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.

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

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

* “Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”

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