Florence Earle Coates Quotes

Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges—they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet?

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

Ugliness in poetry they may find clever and interesting. But it is only beauty that "snatches the breath and fills the eyes with tears."

there is a higher truth and a lower truth, and it is the higher truth that is the proper subject of poetry.

poetry, which is the voice of the soul's aspirations, has for it, of all the arts, the most natural and immediate appeal.

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.

Many modern poets seem to think that poetry should be sensual. It should not—it should be sensuous.