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."

"Sculpture and painting are moments of life. Poetry is life itself."

"I love, and the world is mine!"

"Existence has little repose, and the cultivation and love of poetry require a detached spirit and a certain amount of leisure."

"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 equita…"

"In education poetry is invaluable; the study of it cultivates the memory, the imagination, and the heart."

"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 questi…"

"She was a great woman with the heart of a little child. Her works praise her; the millions of God's creatures whom she has saved from suffering sing her praise. Where she has gone the recognition of t…"