Quote

The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)

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
Way
Silence
Traveler
Stand
Stood
Word
Corner
Friends
Admit
Lost
Corners
Perplexity
Moments
Speaking
Windy
Two
Street
Travelers
Sometimes
Streets
Pioneers

More quotes by Willa Cather

Image
I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all as flooded with the rich indolence of a full moon.
Willa Cather
Image
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather
Image
Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
Willa Cather
Image
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Willa Cather
Image
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
Willa Cather
Image
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
Willa Cather
Image
A burnt dog dreads the fire.
Willa Cather
Image
The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
Willa Cather
Image
A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Willa Cather
Image
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Cather
Image
Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
Willa Cather
Image
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Willa Cather
Image
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's tenderness.
Willa Cather
Image
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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
Happy people do a great deal for their friends.
Willa Cather
Image
The prayers of all good people are good.
Willa Cather
Image
She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
Willa Cather
Image
She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last.
Willa Cather
Image
The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it.
Willa Cather