Quotes by : Willa Cather

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Bouchalka was not a reflective person. He had his own idea of what a great prima donna should be like,....

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it....

If words had cost money, Tom couldn't have used them more sparingly. The adjectives were purely descriptive,....

Miracles... seem to me to rest not so much upon... healing power coming suddenly near us from afar but....

There is only one big thing-desire. And before it when it is big all is little.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe.....

Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children....