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Florence Earle Coates on Poetry

1850–1927 United States

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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.

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.

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.

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