Cynthia Ozick Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

  Cynthia Ozick

  Inspirational, Imagination, Use

• The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Imagination, Resources, Knows

• The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Discovery, Imagination, Form

• An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Running, Educational, Play

• Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such naive readers testifies to a failure of imagination - the capacity to see into unfamiliar lives, motives, feelings - and this failure must, at least in part, be the failure of the teaching of literature in the schools.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Kings, Teaching, School

  "What Fools Have Never Heard of Cynthia Ozick?". Interview with Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. July 16, 2016.

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