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Willa Cather Quotes about Giving

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Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Willa Cather
Thinking, Giving, People
"Four Letters: Escapism" (1936)

The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do notintrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of giving or of asking help. Their language is not a communicative one, and they never attempt an interchange of personality in speech. Over their forests there is the same inexorable reserve. Each tree has its exalted power to bear.

Willa Cather
Distance, Thinking, Giving
Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.189, Courier Corporation

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

Willa Cather
Art, Giving, Soul
"The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902".

There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

Willa Cather
Country, Giving, Earth
Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.

Willa Cather
Giving, Noble, Achieve
Willa Cather (1992). “Stories, Poems, and Other Writings”

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there - that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.

Willa Cather
Drama, Emotional, Giving
Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.50, U of Nebraska Press

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