Author: Willa Sibert Cather

Cites

• Adam Mickiewicz (1)
  • IN: O Pioneers! (1913) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Those fields, colored by various grain!
    FROM: Pan Tadeusz, (1834), Poem, Poland
• Willa Cather (1)
  • IN: NULL (1913) Historical Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky. Against all this, Youth, Flaming like the wild roses, Singing like the larks over the plowed fields, Flashing like a star out of the twilight; Youth with its insupportable sweetness, Its fierce necessity, Its sharp desire,
    FROM: Prairie Spring, (1913), Poem, US
• Louie Marsellus (1)
  • IN: The Professor's House (1925) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: A turqoise set in silver, wasn't it? ... Yes, a turqoise set in dull silver.
    FROM: The Professor's House, (1925), Novel, US
• William Shakespeare (1)
  • IN: A Lost Lady (1923) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: ...Come, my coach! Good night, ladies; good night, sweet ladies, Good night, good night.
    FROM: Hamlet, (1603), Play, UK
• Christina Rossetti (1)
  • IN: Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We must not look at Goblin men, We must not buy their fruits; Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry, thirsty roots?
    FROM: Goblin Market, (1862), NULL, UK