Willa Sibert Cather Quotes
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Willa Sibert Cather
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Willa Sibert Cather
Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.
Willa Sibert Cather
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.
Willa Sibert Cather
If youth did not matter so much to itself it would never have the heart to go on
Willa Sibert Cather
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
Willa Sibert Cather
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Willa Sibert Cather
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.
Willa Sibert Cather
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Willa Sibert Cather
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
Willa Sibert Cather
In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.
Willa Sibert Cather
