#will cather

[the-final-sentence]

The way from Hell's so long, so long!

Will Cather, from “Eurydice”

[arrhythmia-on-avalon]

Suddenly something flashed into her mind, so clear that it must have come from without, from the breathless quiet. What if — what if Life itself were the sweetheart? It was like a lover waiting for her in distant cities — across the sea; drawing her, enticing her, weaving a spell over her. She opened the window softly and knelt down beside it to breathe the cold air. She felt the snowflakes melt in her hair, on her hot cheeks. Oh, now she knew! She must have it, she couldn’t run away from it. She must go back into the world and get all she could out of everything that had made him what he was. Those splendours were still on earth, to be sought after and fought for.

Lucy Gayheart by Willa Cather

[richardandrose]

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Willa Cather

[lateyellow]

There was still an hour before nightfall, and he spent that hour pacing up and down the crust of bare rock between the village and the ruin of the old mission church. The sun was sinking, a red ball which threw a copper glow over the pine-covered ridge of mountains, and edged that inky, ominous cloud with molten silver.

Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop (Vintage Classics, 1990)

[shneevon]

The sculptor’s splendid head seemed even more noble in its rigid stillness than in life. The dark hair had crept down upon the wide forehead; the face seemed strangely long, but in it there was not that beautiful and chaste repose which we expect to find in the faces of the dead. The brows were so drawn that there were two deep lines above the beaked nose, and the chin was thrust forward defiantly. It was as though the strain of life had been so sharp and bitter that death could not at once wholly relax the tension and smooth the countenance into perfect peace—as though he were still guarding something precious and holy, which might even yet be wrested from him.

Willa Cather, “The Sculptor’s Funeral” 

[theinfinitesky]

At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

Will Cather, My Antonia

[nothingbetweenthelines]

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

// Willa Cather