Willa Cather

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. ↗

— Willa Cather

#exile #family #friends #full #his

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

#fiercely #go #had #happened #human

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own. ↗

— Willa Cather

#another #been #close #dark #forest

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. ↗

— Willa Cather

#does #dream #great #great deal #live

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ↗

— Willa Cather

#because #i #like #live #more

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. ↗

— Willa Cather

#anything #better #ever #happen #memories

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ↗

— Willa Cather

#calm #learn #some #some things #storm

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived. ↗

— Willa Cather

#cold #die #having #i #lived

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ↗

— Willa Cather

#believe #difficult #easy #great #how

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper whether little or great, it belongs to Literature. ↗

— Willa Cather

#down #gets #great #itself #last