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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
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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.
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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.
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People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
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Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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There was nothing but land not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
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The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
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An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
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The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.
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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.
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them.
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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.
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Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.
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If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
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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.
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If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
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She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.
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The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes.
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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.
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