It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. – Willa Cather
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. – Willa Cather
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves. – Willa Cather
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather