Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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.
Willa Cather
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Forward
Floating
Moon
Current
Deep
Currents
Lying
Invisible
Water
Warm
Like
Seemed
Lily
Sky
Lilies
Blue
Midnight
More quotes by Willa Cather
One January day, thirty years ago, the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away.
Willa Cather
Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.
Willa Cather
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself - a game of make-believe, or re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.
Willa Cather
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
Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
Willa Cather
Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.
Willa Cather
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
Willa Cather
The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual those who were not have been long forgotten.
Willa Cather
An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.
Willa Cather
Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
Willa Cather
Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes.
Willa Cather
Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.
Willa Cather
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.
Willa Cather
If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry
Willa Cather
Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness - why must they go out of the summer world into darkness?
Willa Cather
You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
Willa Cather
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
I ain't got time to learn. I can work like mans now.
Willa Cather
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
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
Willa Cather
