People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Willa Cather

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

The only thing very noticeable about Nebraska was that it was still, all day long, Nebraska.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

The end is nothing; the road is all.