Get Your Premium Membership
Member Area
Soup Social
Member Poems
Member Poets
Famous Poems
Famous Poets
Poetry Resources

Willa Cather

Willa Cather Photo
Biography | All Poems | Best Poems | Short Poems | Quotes

Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!, My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I. Cather grew up in Nebraska and graduated from the University of Nebraska. She lived and worked in Pittsburgh for ten years, then at the age of 33 she moved to New York, where she lived for the rest of her life.

Poems are below...


Top 5 Poems

All Poems

Articles

Articles about Willa Cather or articles that mention Willa Cather.

Quotes

Here are a few random quotes by Willa Cather.

See also: All Willa Cather Quotes

Quote Left The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment

Quote Left Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down th... Quote Right
Go to Quote / Comment


Book: Reflection on the Important Things