Mina Loy Quotes

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

  Mina Loy

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that fly through the brain. If you are very frank with yourself and don't mind how ridiculous anything that comes to you may seem, you will have a chance of capturing the symbols of your direct reactions. Thus, you will, perhaps, find yourself reaching a heightened sense of awareness completely outside the realm of mundane experience.

  Mina Loy

  Brain, Finding Yourself, Mind

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

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  Ideas, Sound, Made

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.157, Macmillan

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• Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-

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  Desire

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.155, Macmillan

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• There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity

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  Space, Intensity, Immensity

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.3, Macmillan

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

  Mina Loy

  Men

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• DIE in the past. Live in the future.

  Mina Loy

  Past, Dies

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• 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.

  Mina Loy

  Eye, Glasses, Pouring

  Mina Loy, Maeera Shreiber, Keith Tuma (1998). “Mina Loy: woman and poet”, Natl Poetry Foundation

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• Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.

  Mina Loy

  Appreciation, Self

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• 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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  Appreciation, Self, May

  Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Mina Loy

  Sex, Attitude, Superstitions

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• 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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  Lying, Pet, Upheaval

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

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  Pet, Want, Realizing

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• 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.

  Mina Loy

  Gertrude, Research, Matter

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• The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

  Mina Loy

  Feminist, Feminism, Movement

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