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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

The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world. ↗

— Willa Cather

#behind #cloak #down #due #edge

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 Cather

#could #creation #desire #element #foretell

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen. ↗

— Willa Cather

#age #basic #before #fifteen #material

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves. ↗

— Ryan Gosling

#capture #everything #get #how #kind

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

— Willa Cather

#dissolved #great #happiness #into #something

Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#context #involved #larger #lost #sometimes

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. ↗

— Willa Cather

#living #might #old #speak #try

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand. ↗

— Willa Cather

#hand #human #intimate #irregular #made

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies. ↗

— Willa Cather

#artist #best #character #creative #deepest