Frases de Florence Earle Coates

Florence Earle Coates fue una poetisa y escritora estadounidense.

✵ 1. julio 1850 – 6. abril 1927
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Florence Earle Coates: Frases en inglés

“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 New York Times (10 December 1916) From "Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry." http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A0CE2D7153BE233A25753C1A9649D946796D6CF

“They live indeed—the dead by whose example we are upward led.”

Florence Earle Coates libro Mine and Thine

Taken from the inscription on Mrs. Coates' headstone which is excerpted from a memorial poem she wrote for Eliza Sproat Turner, who died on 20 June 1903. "In Memory: Eliza Sproat Turner" http://books.google.com/books?id=XCsXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA112#v=onepage&q=&f=false from Mine and Thine (1904).

“A democrat by conviction rather than by temperament, urging democracy as 'the only method consistent with human instinct toward expansion,' he was yet an educator, and believed in equality upon a high, not upon a low plane. Like Ruskin, he demanded of men their best, and with less than their best refused to be satisfied.”

Florence Earle Coates

Mrs. Coates on Matthew Arnold—Literary and social critic who both encouraged and inspired Mrs. Coates' writing, and was a guest on several occasions at the Coates' Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania home during his stays in Philadelphia (31 March 1894). From The Critic, 31 March 1894.

“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 this world counts for little. She has gone where the merciful are blessed, where the pure in heart see God.”

Florence Earle Coates

Mrs. Coates on her Aunt (ca. September 1916), Mrs. Caroline Earle White—President and founder of The Women&#x27;s Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the American Anti-Vivisection Society. Caroline Earle White biography on the American Anti-Vivisection Society website http://www.aavs.org/cew.html <br class="br"> Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, Volume 33 (1922) http://books.google.com/books?id=c1o8AAAAIAAJ&amp;dq=%22florence%20earle%20coates%22%20%22pure%20in%20heart%20see%20god%22&amp;pg=PA52#v=onepage&amp;q=%22she%20was%20a%20great%20woman%22&amp;f=false

“I love, and the world is mine!”

Florence Earle Coates

From Mrs. Coates' poem, "Song: For me the jasmine buds unfold". First published in Harper's Weekly (21 February 1891)

“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

The New York Times (10 December 1916) From &quot;Godlessness Mars Most Contemporary Poetry.&quot; http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&amp;res=9A0CE2D7153BE233A25753C1A9649D946796D6CF

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