Florence Earle Coates Quotes

The atmosphere of poetry today seems strained and unnatural. There is an attempt to force the growth of poetry.

Poetry belongs to the real things—to the realm of the ideal which is "the only real."

A democrat by conviction rather than by temperament, urging democracy as 'the only method consistent with human instinct toward expansion,' he was yet an educator, and believed in equality upon a high, not upon a low plane. Like Ruskin, he demanded of men their best, and with less than their best refused to be satisfied.

The question of perpetual copyright is, in my judgement, entitled to the full and favorable consideration of the Congress of an enlightened republic. There would seem to be every reason for the equitable protection, without limit as to time, of the unquestioned property rights of its citizens.

She was a great woman with the heart of a little child. Her works praise her; the millions of God's creatures whom she has saved from suffering sing her praise. Where she has gone the recognition of this world counts for little. She has gone where the merciful are blessed, where the pure in heart see God.

The future of poetry should be, must be, in the hearts of children, lifting them above mean desires and helping them to believe, with Socrates, that they who have the fewest wants are nearest to the gods.

poetry needed no renascence. It was not young, it is not old.

In education poetry is invaluable; the study of it cultivates the memory, the imagination, and the heart.

They live indeed—the dead by whose example we are upward led.

poetry in some form is necessary to all—save, perhaps, to those who are content to live upon bread alone.

Existence has little repose, and the cultivation and love of poetry require a detached spirit and a certain amount of leisure.

Sculpture and painting are moments of life. Poetry is life itself.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

Of all the arts poetry is the most intimate and personal.

There is no true poetry that is not dedicated to the soul and to joy.