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Home Quotes & Sayings Willa Cather Quotes (About Light, World)

Willa Cather Quotes: I wanted to walk straight on through the…

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.

("My Antonia")

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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Cather

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.
Willa Cather

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
Willa Cather

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
Willa Cather

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
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What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.
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