Willa Cather Quotes


All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.


Citations

Cather, Willa. The Song of the Lark. Houghton Mifflin, 1915.

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Willa Cather
Willa Cather
  • Born: December 7, 1873
  • Died: April 24, 1947
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer known for her novels of life on the Great Plains, including O Pioneers!, The Song of the Lark, and My Ántonia. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours, a novel set during World War I.