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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

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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."

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

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Beauty itself doth of itself persuade
The eyes of men without an orator.

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