Florence Earle Coates Quotes

• Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

  Florence Earle Coates

  Fear, Fire, Wings

  Florence Earle Coates (1916). “Poems”

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• I love, and the world is mine!

  Florence Earle Coates

  Love, World, Mines

  Florence Earle Coates, “Songs”

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• 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

  Age, Thank God, Ephemeral

  The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

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• 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

  Art, Mean, Soul

  The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

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• A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.

  Florence Earle Coates

  Hombres

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• 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

  Rights, Judgement, Republic

  The Literary World, October 28, 1899.

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• 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

  Spring, Sky, Larks

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