Florence Earle Coates: Quotes about love

Florence Earle Coates was American writer and poet. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Florence Earle Coates: 44 quotes0 likes

“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

“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

“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)