Willa Cather Bags

Description: Willa Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: I tell you, there is such a thing as creative hate!

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him... We have no house, no place, no people of our own. We live in the streets, in the parks, in the theatres. We sit in restaurants and concert halls and look about at the hundreds of our own kind and shudder.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: My familiar spirit is like an old wild turkey that forsakes a feeding ground as soon as it sees tracks of people-especially if the people are readers, book-buyers. It's a crafty bird and it wants to go where there aint no readers That's the truth: they go and paw a place all up and spoil it for me. It isn't my secret anymore.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it—for a little while.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: 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.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: There's nothing so dangerous as sitting still. You've only got one life, one youth, and you can let it slip through your fingers if you want to; nothing easier. Most people do that.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Now I know that 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.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing—desire.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, 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?