In education poetry is invaluable; the study of it cultivat… - Florence Earle Coates

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

Florence Earle Coates

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Florence Earle Coates (1 July 1850 – 6 April 1927)—American poet born in Philadelphia, and Pennsylvania poet laureate who gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary magazines of her day such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, The Literary Digest, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's.

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Birth Name: Florence Van Leer Earle

Alternative Names: Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Coates

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

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

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

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