The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify - it was like the light of truth itself.
Willa CatherOf all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
Willa CatherIf [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.
Willa Cather