Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Florence Earle Coates

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Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Florence Van Leer Earle Nicholson Coates was an American poet, whose prolific output was published in many literary magazines, some of it set to music. She was mentored by the English poet Matthew Arnold, with whom she maintained a lifelong friendship. She was famous for her many nature-poems, inspired by the flora and fauna of the Adirondacks, where she lived, and she was elected poet laureate of Pennsylvania.

American - Poet | July 1, 1850 - April 6, 1927

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A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.

Florence Earle Coates

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Florence Earle Coates

I love, and the world is mine!

Florence Earle Coates

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

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

Florence Earle Coates

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 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

Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Florence Earle Coates

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