491 Quotes by Willa Cather

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.

If there were no girls like them in the world, there would be no poetry

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.

Oh, this is the joy of the rose; That it blows, And goes.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

The rock, when one came to think of it, was the utmost expression of human need; even mere feeling yearned for it; it was the highest comparison of loyalty in love and friendship. Christ Himself had used that comparison for the disciple to whom He gave the keys of His Church. And the Hebrews of the Old Testament, always being carried captive into foreign lands, – their rock was an idea of God, the only thing their conquerors could not take from them.

I could feel his heart pump and his muscles strain,” she said, “when he balanced himself and me on the rocks. I knew that if we fell, we’d go together; he would never drop me”.