Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Willa Sibert Cather
Happen
Success
Place
Happens
Dream
Fulfil
Best
Worldly
Take
Youth
Men
Dreams

More quotes by Willa Cather

Image
It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
Willa Cather
Image
There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.
Willa Cather
Image
In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
Willa Cather
Image
Success is never so interesting as struggle
Willa Cather
Image
The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.
Willa Cather
Image
Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.
Willa Cather
Image
One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days.
Willa Cather
Image
The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.
Willa Cather
Image
Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.
Willa Cather
Image
Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.
Willa Cather
Image
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
Image
I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
Willa Cather
Image
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
Willa Cather
Image
I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
Willa Cather
Image
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
Image
The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.
Willa Cather
Image
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
Willa Cather
Image
Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
Willa Cather
Image
Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
Willa Cather
Image
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Willa Cather