Willa Cather Quotes & Sayings

34 most famous Willa Cather quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was an American author who passed away on 24 April, 1947.

“Where there is great love, there are always wishes.”

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”

“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.”

“It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.”

“Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.”

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”

“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.”