Status Updates From Willa Cather on Writing: Cr...

Willa Cather used her talent to resurrect Defoe and then promptly slam dunk him back into his grave with that review of Roxana

'...the themes of true poetry, of great poetry, will be the same until all the values of human life have changed and all the strongest emotional responses have become different -- which can hardly occur until the physical body itself has fundamentally changed.'