#willa cather

[deviika]

Willa Cather // Franz Kafka

#franz kafka #Willa Cather #quotes #classic literature #poetry #deep quotes #dark academia #chaotic academia #classic academia #book quotes #light academia

[rosepompadour]

She wanted flowers and music and enchantment and love,—

Willa Cather, Lucy Gayheart (1935)

#imagine my shock when i went looking for my willa cather tag and discovered there's nothing in it?! #what kind of blog am i running? #too many interests; i contain multitudes; etc etc #willa cather #lucy gayheart #literature

[petaltexturedskies]

Willa Cather, from "Dedicatory" in The Complete Works of Willa Cather

#Willa Cather #typography #april

[derangedrhythms]

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Willa Cather, from ‘The Professor's House’

#willa cather #the professor's house #prose #heart #o

[gayiconwaluigi]

The thing that caught me after watching Saltburn a second time is when we see Oliver’s father. It all falls into place. Oliver has his father’s eyes, his father’s glasses, his father’s clothes. He sees his future staring back at him when he sees his dad, and it’s rubbed in his face when Farleigh tells him this is all a dream he’ll tell to his fat children someday. Oliver can see how his entire life will go and he can’t take it. Reminds me a little bit of the short story Paul’s Case by Willa Cather.

#Saltburn #emerald fennell #Oliver quick #Barry Keoghan #films #saltburn spoilers #saltburn meta #saltburn analysis #Willa Cather

[embeccy]

"She wanted flowers and music and enchantment and love..."

- Willa Cather

#willa cather #foryou #tumblrpost #source: tumblr #quotes #literature #quoteoftheday #poems and poetry #poetry #life quotes #beautiful quote #musicquotes #music #enchanted #flowers #lovers #love quotes #love #dead poets society #poetic #writers and poets #book quotes #bookworm #book quote #books #booklover #books & libraries

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Fourteen inches of fresh powder fell today in the Santa Fe Mountains... it looks like the Santa Fe ski season is being extended to mid-April. :: [h/t Robert Horton]

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In New Mexico he always awoke a young man… Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up to him for the loss of those light-hearted mornings of the desert, for that wind that made one a boy again. He had noticed that this peculiar quality in the air of new countries vanished after they were tamed by man and made to bear harvests… That air would disappear from the whole earth in time, perhaps; but long after his day. He did not know just when it had become so necessary to him, but he had come back to die in exile for the sake of it. Something soft and wild and free, something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning! —Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, bk ix, ch iii (1927)

[Thanks to Scott Horton]

#quotes #Willa Cather #Death Comes For the Archbishop #Santa Fe #New Mexico #feeling

[bookthroneking]

a decent-sized book haul this month. I didn't quite mean to buy so many books, but I discovered a new favorite book store and the local secondhand bookshop just had a few new arrivals, so the temptations were too great to resist.

Jane Austen: Emma

Kenneth Grahame: The Wind in the Willows

Willa Cather: Alexander's Bridge

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

Julia Armfield: Our Wives Under the Sea

Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

really excited to dive into all of these; I was super tempted by a gorgeous hardcover of Ice by Anna Kavan and by Tender Is the Flesh too, but I'm trying to rein myself in. maybe next month!

#classic literature #literary fiction #book haul #ocean vuong #jane austen #mary shelley #willa cather #julia armfield #contemporary literature #my library #bookblr #my posts

[britneyshakespeare]

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, chapter XI

#i am really not enjoying this book but i did like this one description #made me feel for the characters. for the first time #willa cather #my ántonia #i feel like this book has a way of undercutting everything i want to find interesting in it #and descriptions are often so long and lifeless #it cannot be called a book where a whole lot happens #and frankly jim burden as a narrator is just bizarrely uninteresting #i have so many questions for him that he has no mind to answer #im like ok then. back to describing the rolling red fields of nebraska once again #im almost done w the first section of the book 'the shimerdas' #pls tell me this picks up some steam at some point... #technically a big thing just happened plot wise but it seems to have resulted in no intriguing revelations in character #jim burden is allergic to that

[have-you-read-this-short-fiction]

"Paul's Case" is available to read here

#short stories #short story #paul's case #willa cather #20th century literature #english language literature #american literature #have you read this short fiction? #book polls #completed polls #links to text

[othellho]

— "The Star Dial", Willa Cather

#poetry #willa cather #words #i just need somewhere to store my fave lill poems #for keeps

[the-hearth-and-the-wild]

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

Willa Cather, My Antonia

#book quotes #nature quotes #willa cather #my antonia #literature #books and reading #nature #nature writing #books and libraries

[rosepompadour]

If there were no girls like her in the world, there would be no poetry.

Willa Cather, My Antonia (1918)

#a sequel called my lena #write it willa #death is for quitters #can you tell i'm desperately trying to fill up my willa cather tag after the horrific discovery that i've never posted about her #truly mind-boggling #the trials and tribulations of a girl with too many favorite writers: the sarah rose story #willa cather #my antonia #literature

[petaltexturedskies]

Willa Cather, from My Antonia

#willa cather #typography

[poligraf]

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Willa Cather

#art #artist #artistic growth #quotes #life quotes #quote #willa cather #personal development #personal growth

[prairie-daughter]

“As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of winestains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running.”

Willa Cather, My Antonia

#americana #novel #quote #willa cather #my antonia #literature #prairie #nature