#willa

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing. ↗

— Willa Cather

#pittsburgh #willa-cather #new-york-city

The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this is an age for spiritual heroes- a time for men and women to be heroic in their faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its message too low. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#church #dallas-willard #inspirational #religion #age

But the life of a Willa Cather, a Lillian Helman, and Virginia Woolf - - - would it not be a series of rapid ascents and probing descents into shades and meanings — into more people, ideas and conceptions? Would it not be in color, rather than black-and-white, or more gray? I think it would. And thus, I not being them, could try to be more like them: to listen, observe, and feel, and try to live more fully. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#willa-cather #life

MEN, Charlene said. Leave that to you! Willa quipped. ↗

— Ridley Pearson

#willa #men

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair. ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#age

Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself. ↗

— Joan Acocella

#art