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Willa Cather
Willa Cather
American Author
Born: Dec 7, 1873
Died: Apr 24, 1947
Art Before Great Matter Old World
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Where there is great love, there are always wishes. Willa Cather
Love Great Great Love Wishes Always Where
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Willa Cather
Memories Better Some Than Happen Anything Again Realities Ever
I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. Willa Cather
Death Cold Having Shall Die Lived
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
Great Animal World Edge Exhausted Energy Down Took Flung Spent Sun Visiting Stepped Over Like Due Stimulated Cloak Left Behind Fields Evening Wide Presence
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. Willa Cather
Art Freedom Matter Every Intrusion Restriction Freedom From Foreign Condition Much Requires
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
Best Character Creative Everything Define Range Lies About Only Write Writer Talent Well Equally Within Limitations His Reporter Artist Note View Deepest Presented Sympathies
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. Willa Cather
Kindness People Drop Become Few Security Something Had Bottomless Like Always Malevolent Left Shipwreck Afraid Where Place Them Reason Moments Even Found
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. Willa Cather
Youth Met Own Back Our Way Those Some Only Look Cherish Accord Want Which Formed Us Original Things Early Desire
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. Willa Cather
Age Before Writer Most Material Acquired Fifteen Works Basic
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. Willa Cather
Quality Made Intimate Entirely Hand Irregular Human Things
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather
Truth Great Stupid Believe Difficult Great Artist Easy Only Knows How Truthful Artist
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. Willa Cather
Achievement Creation Magical Could Instrument Were Foretell Process Which Measure Element Desire

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