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“What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment.”
― Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
― Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
“Those who lament the dissolution of the American family-kids with no way to get to Girl Scouts, aging parents put into nursing homes-should remember what it was that kept the American family together: women's blood.”
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“Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.”
― Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
― Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
“It is terrible to imagine what will be the next generation's revenge on this generation. One is tempted to plead in advance for a little historical understanding—to point out, for example, that the political causes in question, having been ignored for several thousand years, were very urgently felt in our time, even to the point of such absurdities.”
― Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
― Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism
