Mina Loy Quotes & Sayings

If this is madness," I said to myself, breathing his atmosphere exquisite almost to sanctification, "madness is something very beautiful. — Mina Loy

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

And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon — Mina Loy

Whenever I let him in he would halt on the threshold drawing the whole of his luminous life up into his smile. — Mina Loy

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

There is no half-measure--NO scratching on the surface of the rubbish heap of tradition will bring about Reform, the only method is Absolute Demolition — Mina Loy

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

We might have coupled
In the bed-ridden monopoly of a moment
Or broken flesh with one another
At the profane communion table
Where wine is spill'd on promiscuous lips

We might have given birth to a butterfly
With the daily-news
Printed in blood on its wings — Mina Loy

Oh that's right
Keep away from me Please give me a push
Don't let me understand you Don't realise me
Or we might tumble together
Depersonalized
Identical
Into the terrific Nirvana
Me you --- you --- me — Mina Loy

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

She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass. — Mina Loy

though you have never posessed me/ I have belonged to you since the beginning of time — Mina Loy

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

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

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

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

Some say that happy women are immaterial. — Mina Loy

I once heard somebody express surprise that instead of following it onward one should not take a cut across Time to secure a moment which, stretching out in line with oneself, would last indefinitely. — Mina Loy

It is not given to each of us
To be desired. — Mina Loy

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

The past has come apart
events are vagueing
the future is inexploitable — Mina Loy

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

My friend, we are not dressed for going into town," I insisted, heading him off in another direction.

"Why?" asked Insel in bewildered politeness. "You look as lovely as you always do. — Mina Loy

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

DIE in the past. Live in the future. — Mina Loy

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate. — Mina Loy

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy. — Mina Loy

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

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