Florence Earle Coates Quotes

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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.

Florence Earle Coates
Poetry needed no renascence. It was not young, it is not old.

Florence Earle Coates
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.

Florence Earle Coates
My "Poems" were written without a purpose, other than the expression of faiths and ideals strongly realized and emotions keenly felt. They were written for the joy of writing, and for the satisfaction of an irresistible impulse. It is my belief that it is not the business of art either to teach or to preach.

Florence Earle Coates
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?

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

Florence Earle Coates
Ah, me! the Prison House of Pain! — what lessons there are bought! — Lessons of a sublimer strain Than any elsewhere taught.

Florence Earle Coates