Mina Loy Quotes

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

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[Be] Brave and deny at the outset—that pathetic clap-trap war cry Woman is the equal of man for She is not!…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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Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.

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

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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.

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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

Mina Loy

Mina Loy

Born: December 27, 1882

Died: September 25, 1966 (aged 83)

Bio: Mina Loy, born Mina Gertrude Löwy, was a British artist, writer: poet, playwright, novelist, futurist, feminist, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition.

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