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1 " There is no Space or TimeOnly intensity, And tame thingsHave no immensity "
― Mina Loy , The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
2 " We might have coupledIn the bed-ridden monopoly of a momentOr broken flesh with one anotherAt the profane communion tableWhere wine is spill'd on promiscuous lipsWe might have given birth to a butterflyWith the daily-newsPrinted in blood on its wings "
3 " She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass. "
4 " Some say that happy women are immaterial. "
5 " The past has come apart events are vagueingthe future is inexploitable "
6 " Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea. "
7 " LOVE of others is the appreciation of one's self. MAY your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy. "
8 " It is not given to each of usTo be desired. "
9 " 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 "
10 " MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy. "
11 " LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it. "
12 " 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
13 " If you want to realize yourselves all your pet illusions must be unmasked. "
14 " If this is madness,” I said to myself, breathing his atmosphere exquisite almost to sanctification, “madness is something very beautiful. "
― Mina Loy , Insel
15 " 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 "
16 " 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. "
17 " And "Immortality" mildews ...in the museums of the moon "
18 " May your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy. "
19 " 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. "
20 " From the shores of oval oceans in the oxidized Orient Onyx-eyed Odalisques and ornithologists observe the flight of Eros obsolete And “Immortality” mildews . . . in the museums of the moon. "
