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Florence Earle Coates Quotes

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.

Florence Earle Coates
Fear, Fire, Wings
Florence Earle Coates (1916). “Poems”

I love, and the world is mine!

Florence Earle Coates
Love, World, Mines
Florence Earle Coates, “Songs”

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.

A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.

Florence Earle Coates
Men

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.

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.

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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