From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains from the other lay still in the earth and rotted; and nobody knew why.


O Pioneers! (ed. Library of Alexandria, 1913) - ISBN: 9781613103944

Willa Cather Quotes

From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains...

From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains...

From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains...

From two ears that had grown side by side, the grains of one shot up joyfully into the light, projecting themselves into the future, and the grains...