Willa Cather Quotes about Heart

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

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

Willa Cather

Love, Nature, Heart

Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.93, U of Nebraska Press

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

Willa Cather

Notebook, Attitude, Heart

Willa Cather (1988). “Not Under Forty”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

Willa Cather

Heart, Too Much, Alive

Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.129, Xist Publishing

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

Willa Cather

Heart, Goes On, Matter

Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.286, Simon and Schuster

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.

Willa Cather

Strong, Heart, Son