Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Quotes from book
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop is a 1927 novel by American author Willa Cather. It concerns the attempts of a Catholic bishop and a priest to establish a diocese in New Mexico Territory.
“Where there is great love there are always miracles.”
Book I, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Book IX, Ch. 3
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Book VII, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
“That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”
Book I, Ch. 3
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Book VII, Ch. 4
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
Context: The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there, under one's feet, but what one saw when one looked about was that brilliant blue world of stinging air and moving cloud. Even the mountains were mere ant-hills under it. Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky. The landscape one longed for when one was away, the thing all about one, the world one actually lived in, was the sky, the sky!
