The Lost Lunar Baedeker Quotes

“There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“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, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“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, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“She is yet like a diamond on a heap of broken glass.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“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, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“Some say that happy women are immaterial.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“And "Immortality"
mildews ...
in the museums of the moon”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“It is not given to each of us
To be desired.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“May your egotism be so gigantic that you comprise mankind in your self-sympathy.”
― mina loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“The past has come apart
events are vagueing
the future is inexploitable”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“Virgins may whisper ‘Transparent nightdresses made all of lace’ Virgins may squeak ‘My dear           I should faint’ Flutter..… flutter.… flutter.… .…‘And then        the man—’ Wasting our giggles For we have no dots We have been taught Love is a god White              with soft wings                         Nobody shouts             Virgins for sale Yet where are our coins For buying a purchaser Love is a god”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy

“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.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“And Mary preserve our mistresses from seeing us as we see ourselves.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“I had to be caught in the weak eddy
Of your drivelling humanity
To love you most”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems

“Does your mirror Bedevil you?”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems