Mina Loy Quotes

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

“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.”

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

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

“The past has come apart events are vagueingthe future is inexploitable”

“Some say that happy women are immaterial.”

“She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.”

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

“A great tragedy is occurring. Millions of people are dying prematurely. These people are killing themselves and they don’t even know it.”