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1850–1927 United States
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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They live indeed—the dead by whose example we are upward led.
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.
There is no true poetry that is not dedicated to the soul and to joy.
Poetry belongs to the real things—to the realm of the ideal which is "the only real."
Ugliness in poetry they may find clever and interesting. But it is only beauty that "snatches the breath and fills the eyes with tears."
Of all the arts poetry is the most intimate and personal.
I love, and the world is mine!
Sculpture and painting are moments of life. Poetry is life itself.
Many modern poets seem to think that poetry should be sensual. It should not—it should be sensuous.
The atmosphere of poetry today seems strained and unnatural. There is an attempt to force the growth of 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?
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.
there is a higher truth and a lower truth, and it is the higher truth that is the proper subject of poetry.
poetry in some form is necessary to all—save, perhaps, to those who are content to live upon bread alone.
poetry, which is the voice of the soul's aspirations, has for it, of all the arts, the most natural and immediate appeal.
poetry needed no renascence. It was not young, it is not old.
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.
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.
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