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Mina Loy
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“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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“The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.”
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“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?”
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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 ... ”
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“Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.”
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“It is not given to each of us / To be desired.”
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“Behind God's eyes / There might / Be other lights.”
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“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
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“... 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.”
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“[On Gertrude Stein:] Curie / of the laboratory / of vocabulary / she crushed / the tonnage / of consciousness / congealed to phrases / to extract / a radium of the word.”
Mina Loy, English poet, artist, poet, playwright, actor, designer, bohemian
(1882 - 1966)
Born Mina Gertrude Löwry, she was considered a Modernist and a Futurist, mainly appreciated years after her work.