Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism Quotes

“Art, like Nebraska, is a journey into thin air, a walk into whiteness, where you lose everything but yourself.”
― Joan Acocella, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism

“It is terrible to imagine what will be the next generation's revenge on this generation. One is tempted to plead in advance for a little historical understanding—to point out, for example, that the political causes in question, having been ignored for several thousand years, were very urgently felt in our time, even to the point of such absurdities.”
― Joan Acocella, Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism