"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of." ― Willa Cather Topic(s): Great More From Willa Cather "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." "That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great." "I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do." More In Great "Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."― Thomas Hardy "Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."― Mahatma Gandhi "Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other."― Marcus V. Pollio