Florence Earle Coates

“ Sainte-Beuve tells us that "there exists in the greater number of men a poet who dies young, and is survived by the man"; and, while lamenting the truth of this, we are proportionately grateful for the ideality and imagination that do not fail, for the vision that remains unclouded, and the wings that do not tire. ”

“ It impresses one, however, as a curiously felicitous chance that, more than two thousand years after Sappho's death, it should have occurred to a poet possessed of the adequate genius and scholarship to rehabilitate her Muse, and, from slightest fragments, to reconstruct her lost—yet unrelinquished song. ”

“ The deathless beautiful draws strangely nigh,
⁠And we look up, and marvel how so long
We were content to toil for sordid things that die.
"ALL art," says Schiller, "is dedicated to joy." Surely it was a gift of fortune to receive the name Bliss Carman—a name, in its melodious utterance, suggestive of song; and, through the exercise of faculties as fortunate, that name has now become familiar to all lovers of literature and art. The day has gone by when Mr. ”