Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Mina Loy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British novelist Mina Loy.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Mina Loy was a British-born artist, writer, poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer of lamps, and bohemian. She was one of the last of the first-generation modernists to achieve posthumous recognition. Her poetry was admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Basil Bunting, Gertrude Stein, Francis Picabia, and Yvor Winters, among others. As stated by Nicholas Fox Weber in the New York Times, "This brave soul had the courage and wit to be original. Mina Loy may never be more than a vaguely familiar name, a passing satellite, but at least she sparkled from an orbit of her own choosing."

British - Novelist | December 27, 1882 - September 25, 1966

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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.

Mina Loy

Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.

Mina Loy

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mina Loy

The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate.

Mina Loy

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

Mina Loy

DIE in the past. Live in the future.

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

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

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

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

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Mina Loy

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