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Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Coates was an American poet.

✵ 1. July 1850 – 6. April 1927
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Mine and Thine
Mine and Thine
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Mine and Thine
Mine and Thine
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Famous Florence Earle Coates Quotes

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

“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

Mrs. Coates on perpetual copyright. From The Literary World, 28 Oct 1899.

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

“I love, and the world is mine!”

Florence Earle Coates

From Mrs. Coates' poem, "Song: For me the jasmine buds unfold". First published in Harper's Weekly (21 February 1891)

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

Florence Earle Coates Quotes about art

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

“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

Written at Camp Elsinore, Upper St. Regis Lake, New York, June 24, 1898. From Book News, Aug 1898.

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

“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

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&#x27;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 <br class="br"> Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Volume 33 (1922) http://books.google.com/books?id=c1o8AAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=%22florence%20earle%20coates%22%20%22pure%20in%20heart%20see%20god%22&amp;pg=PA52#v=onepage&amp;q=%22she%20was%20a%20great%20woman%22&amp;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&#x27; headstone which is excerpted from a memorial poem she wrote for Eliza Sproat Turner, who died on 20 June 1903. &quot;In Memory: Eliza Sproat Turner&quot; http://books.google.com/books?id=XCsXAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA112#v=onepage&amp;q=&amp;f=false from Mine and Thine (1904).

“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

“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.

“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

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

Florence Earle Coates

On poetry

“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 &quot;Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry.&quot; http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&amp;res=9A0CE2D7153BE233A25753C1A9649D946796D6CF

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