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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

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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I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.
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youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.
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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.
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I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
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Pity is sworn servant unto love: And this be sure, wherever it begin To make the way, it lets your master in.
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This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
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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.
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A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.
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Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.
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I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow.
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Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.
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Today I stood taller from walking among the trees.
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
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The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
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Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.
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William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.
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[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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