What did Willa Cather mean by: No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Willa Cather Author Copy
+ The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Emptiness, Machinery, Stillness, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ It is cremated youth. It is all yours–no one gave it to you. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Independence, Loss, Ownership, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives! Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Connection, Loneliness, Love, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ A child’s attitude toward everything is an artist’s attitude. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Creativity, Innocence, Perspective, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Country, Land, Material, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ It is easy to pity when once one’s vanity has been tickled. Author, October 1, 2023January 2, 2025, Willa Cather, Pity, Vanity, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Communication, Generation gap, Perspective, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Acceptance, Nature, Resilience, 0 Willa Cather Author
He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. Washington Allston Painter · USA
When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself. Read explanation Jean Piaget Psychologist · Switzerland