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05-13-2007 08:07 AM - edited 05-13-2007 08:07 AM
Do you have any favorite quotation by Willa Cather?
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I like these (please,make it a sport to find the sources if you wish; unfortunately I do not have them)
ziki
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**Where there is great love there are always miracles.
**That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
**The history of every country begins in the heart of a man and a woman... And now the old story has begun to write itself over again. Isn't it queer; there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this county, that have been singing the same five notes over and over for thousands of years. (O, pioneers)
**Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.
**Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
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I like these (please,make it a sport to find the sources if you wish; unfortunately I do not have them)
ziki
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**Where there is great love there are always miracles.
**That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great.
**The history of every country begins in the heart of a man and a woman... And now the old story has begun to write itself over again. Isn't it queer; there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this county, that have been singing the same five notes over and over for thousands of years. (O, pioneers)
**Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.
**Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand -- a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods -- or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Message Edited by ziki on 05-13-200705:09 AM
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05-13-2007 09:03 AM
**There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. ~ Willa Cather
**I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~ Willa Cather
**I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ~ Willa Cather
