Quotes by Cather, Willa

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the yo >>

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the s >>

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporte >>

Quotations about Ideals and Idealism

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. >>

The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always th >>

It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of somethin >>

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine.

Cather, Willa