Mina Loy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Prejudice #Life Is #Mercy
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
Women must destroy in themselves, the desire to be loved-
-- Mina Loy

#Desire
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?
-- Mina Loy

#Lying #Pet #Upheaval
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
Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.
-- Mina Loy

#Appreciation #Self
Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.
-- Mina Loy

#Men
The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.
-- Mina Loy

#Feminist #Feminism #Movement
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

#Matter #Gertrude #Research
If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked.
-- Mina Loy

#Pet #Want #Realizing
Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.
-- Mina Loy

#Ideas #Sound #Made
There is no Space or Time Only intensity, And tame things Have no immensity
-- Mina Loy

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

#Appreciation #Self #May

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