Willa Cather Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow revealed the meaning in common things. She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make you feel the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last. All the strong things of her heart came out in her body, that had been so tireless in serving generous emotions. It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the founders of early races.

  Willa Cather

  Strong, Heart, Son

• Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.

  Willa Cather

  Art, Keys, Decide Upon

  Willa Cather (1988). “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art”, p.123, U of Nebraska Press

• Imagination, which is a quality writers must have, does not mean the ability to weave pretty stories out of nothing. In the right sense, imagination is a response to what is going on — a sensitiveness to which outside things appeal. It is a composition of sympathy and observation.

  Willa Cather

  Mean, Imagination, Quality

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.15, U of Nebraska Press

• A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

  Willa Cather

  Should Have, Ideas, Imagination

  Willa Cather (2015). “O Pioneers”, p.26, Xist Publishing

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