Mina Loy Quotes

#1. And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon

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#2. My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction.

"Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do.

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#3. LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.

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#4. LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.

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#5. She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.

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#6. There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity

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#7. Whenever I let him in he would halt on the threshold drawing the whole of his luminous life up into his smile.

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#8. DIE in the past. Live in the future.

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#9. There is no half-measure--NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition

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#10. We might have coupled
In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment
Or broken flesh with one another
At the profane communion table
Where wine is spill'd on promiscuous lips

We might have given birth to a butterfly
With the daily-news
Printed in blood on its wings

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#11. Women if you want to realise yourselves - you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval - all your pet illusions must be unmasked - the lies of centuries have got to go - are you prepared for the Wrench?

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#12. Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.

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#13. The past has come apart
events are vagueing
the future is inexploitable

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#14. Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-

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#15. I once heard somebody express surprise that instead of following it onward one should not take a cut across Time to secure a moment which, stretching out in line with oneself, would last indefinitely.

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#16. The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

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#17. If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.

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#18. Gertrude Stein ... the Madame Curie of language. Because in her deep research she has crushed thousands of tons of matter to extract the radium of the word.

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#19. Some say that happy women are immaterial.

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#20. MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

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#21. Another great illusion that woman must ... destroy .. is the impurity of sex, the realisation in defiance of superstition that there is nothing impure in sex - except in the mental attitude toward it ...

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#22. It is not given to each of us
To be desired.

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#23. If this is madness," I said to myself, breathing his atmosphere exquisite almost to sanctification, "madness is something very beautiful.

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#24. The flux of life is pouring its aesthetic aspect into your eyes, your ears - and you ignore it because you are looking for your canons of beauty in some sort of frame or glass case or tradition.

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#25. Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

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#26. Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

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#27. Oh that's right
Keep away from me Please give me a push
Don't let me understand you Don't realise me
Or we might tumble together
Depersonalized
Identical
Into the terrific Nirvana
Me you --- you --- me

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#28. though you have never posessed me/ I have belonged to you since the beginning of time

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