Sarah Fielding Quotes

The thing about metaphors is that, if you give them away, you give away the mystery.

In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Everything for me becomes allegory.

Metaphor is the lifeblood of all art.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

All poetry is an ordered voice, one which tries to tell you about a vision in the un-visionary language of farm, city, and love.

Metaphor is not just the detection of patterns; it is the creation of patterns.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

I'm a very boring person, and all I do is want to paint and to record what I feel moves me or what interests me, and that can be in the form of a pig or in the form of President Kennedy.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

When you're a kid, and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard, painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

When I discovered metaphor and what it meant, I got really excited. That was what really pushed me through into music.

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations.

To make the common marvelous is the test of genius.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

Great genial power, one would almost say, consists in not being original at all; in being altogether receptive; in letting the world do all, and suffering the spirit of the hour to pass unobstructed through the mind.