Quote

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

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
Stars
Pale
Dark
Silver
Night
Suppose
Remember
Sky
Moonless
Moon
Flooded
Ones
Shaving
Full
Indolence
Rich
Nights

More quotes by Willa Cather

Image
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
Image
People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
Willa Cather
Image
I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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
When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Image
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
Image
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
Image
In Haverford on the Platte the townspeople still talk of Lucy Gayheart.
Willa Cather
Image
Oh, the Germans classify, but the French arrange.
Willa Cather
Image
In little towns, lives roll along so close to one another loves and hates beat about, their wings almost touching.
Willa Cather
Image
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
Willa Cather
Image
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
Image
Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.
Willa Cather
Image
Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.
Willa Cather
Image
Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible they often flourish and grow strong together.
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
Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
Willa Cather
Image
Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
Willa Cather
Image
A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
Willa Cather
Image
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.
Willa Cather