Florence Earle Coates Quotes (22 quotes)

The New York Times (10 December 1916) From "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry." http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A0CE2D7153BE233A25753C1A9649D946796D6CF

Florence Earle Coates Quotes about heart

“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.”

Florence Earle Coates

Mrs. Coates on her Aunt (ca. September 1916), Mrs. Caroline Earle White—President and founder of The Women's Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the American Anti-Vivisection Society. Caroline Earle White biography on the American Anti-Vivisection Society website http://www.aavs.org/cew.html
Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Volume 33 (1922) http://books.google.com/books?id=c1o8AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22florence%20earle%20coates%22%20%22pure%20in%20heart%20see%20god%22&pg=PA52#v=onepage&q=%22she%20was%20a%20great%20woman%22&f=false

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

Florence Earle Coates

On 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.”

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

Florence Earle Coates Quotes

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

Florence Earle Coates book Mine and Thine

Taken from the inscription on Mrs. Coates' headstone which is excerpted from a memorial poem she wrote for Eliza Sproat Turner, who died on 20 June 1903. "In Memory: Eliza Sproat Turner" http://books.google.com/books?id=XCsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA112#v=onepage&q=&f=false from Mine and Thine (1904).

Dead

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

Beauty , Tear

“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.”

Florence Earle Coates

Mrs. Coates on Matthew Arnold—Literary and social critic who both encouraged and inspired Mrs. Coates' writing, and was a guest on several occasions at the Coates' Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania home during his stays in Philadelphia (31 March 1894). From The Critic, 31 March 1894.

Men , Education , Democracy

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

Soul , Joy

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

Thinking

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

“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

The New York Times (10 December 1916) From "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry." http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A0CE2D7153BE233A25753C1A9649D946796D6CF

God , Truth , Age , Beauty