Katharine Lee Bates Quotes

United States, Author
August 12, 1859 – March, 28, 1929.

Katharine Lee Bates was an American writer, poet, professor, and social activist. Although she was a renowned author and professor during her lifetime, today she is primarily remembered as the author of the words to the anthem "America the Beautiful". For 25 years, she lived with her long-time friend and companion, Katharine Coman.

Also known as Poet, Educator, Writer, Professor, Activist

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.

Katharine Lee Bates
- Up
- History
- Death
Warwick Castle, built of the very centuries, cannot be expected to alter with time's 'brief hours and weeks' - at least, with so few of them as fall to one poor mortal's lot. From visit to visit, I find it as unchanged as the multiplication table.

Katharine Lee Bates
- Time
- Fall

The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.

Katharine Lee Bates
- Habit