Quotes from the World for Sunday 09/08/MXIII

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.

Willa Cather
Willa Cather (1873–1947), U.S. novelist. Andor Harsanyi, in The Song of the Lark, part II, ch. VI (1915).