“The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.”
Source: The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902
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Famous Willa Cather Quotes
“The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
Source: The Song of the Lark
Source: Not Under Forty
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop
“A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.”
Source: The Song of the Lark
Source: Collected Short Fiction, 1892-1912
“Oh, this is the joy of the rose; That it blows, And goes.”
Source: April Twilights (1903): Poems
“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.”
Source: My çntonia
“It is easy to pity when once one's vanity has been tickled.”
Source: The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works
Source: Obscure Destinies
Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
Source: Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art
Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection
“Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.”
Source: Willa Cather's My Ántonia
Source: My çntonia
“A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.”
Source: The Professor's House
“Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.”
Source: The Song of the Lark
“Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.”
Source: The First Willa Cather MEGAPACK®: 50 Classic Short Works
“It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.”
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
Source: 60 WESTERNS: Cowboy Adventures, Yukon & Oregon Trail Tales, Famous Outlaws, Gold Rush Adventures & much more: Riders of the Purple Sage, The Night Horseman, The Last of the Mohicans, Rimrock Trail, The Hidden Children, The Law of the Land, Heart of the West, A Texas Cow-Boy, The Prairie…
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
Source: The Best of Willa Cather
Source: The Selected Letters of Willa Cather
“The end is nothing; the road is all.”
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
“Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.”
“The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.”
Source: The Song of the Lark
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin.”
“An artist's saddest secrets are those that have to do with his artistry.”
Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection
Source: Willa Cather On Writing
Source: The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896
Source: Death Comes for the Archbishop
Source: My Ántonia
Source: The Essential Willa Cather Collection
Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters
“In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.”
Source: Stories, Poems, and Other Writings
“Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.”