Mina Loy Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

DIE in the past. Live in the future.

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

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

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.

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

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

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

Oh that's right Keep away from me Please give me a pushDon't let me understand you Don't realise meOr we might tumble togetherDepersonalizedIdenticalInto the terrific NirvanaMe you --- you --- me

It is not given to each of usTo be desired.

The past has come apart events are vagueingthe future is inexploitable

Some say that happy women are immaterial.

There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity