What did Willa Cather mean by: Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. Willa Cather Author Copy
+ Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Contrast, Imagination, Life, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Endurance, Growth, Resilience, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Connection, Exploration, Perspective, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ Youth, art, love, dreams, true-heartedness – why must they go out of the summer world into darkness? Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Art, Love, Youth, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Innocence, Maturity, Resilience, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ To note an artist’s limitations is but to define his talent. Author, July 30, 2023January 2, 2025, Willa Cather, Definition, Limitations, Talent, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ What if – what if Life itself were the sweetheart? Author, September 22, 2023January 2, 2025, Willa Cather, Love, Philosophy, Possibility, 0 Willa Cather Author
+ Most publishers, like most writers, are ruined by their successes. Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Willa Cather, Publishing, Ruin, Success, 0 Willa Cather Author
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