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Mina Loy


Born
in London, The United Kingdom
December 27, 1882

Died
September 25, 1966

Genre
Arts & Photography, Poetry


Loy was born Mina Gertrude Lowy in London, England. On leaving school, she studied painting, first in Munich for two years and then in London, where one of her teachers was Augustus John. She moved to Paris, France with Stephen Haweis who studied with her at the Académie Colarossi. The couple married in 1903. She first used the name Loy in 1904, when she exhibited six watercolor paintings at the Salon d'Automne in Paris.

Loy soon became a regular in the artistic community at Gertrude Stein's salon, where she met many of the leading avant garde artists and writers of the day. She and Stein were to remain lifelong friends.

In 1907, Loy and Haweis moved to Florence, Italy where they lived more or less separate lives, becoming estranged. Loy mixe ...more

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Insel
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Stories and Essays of Mina Loy
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The Feminist Manifesto
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The Autobiography of Mina L...
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Sange til Joannes
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“There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
tags: immensity, intensity, poems, poetry, space, time
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“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
tags: compassion, ego, egotism, empathy, love, others, self, self-respect, sympathy
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“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
― Mina Loy, The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems
tags: ideas, music, poems, poetry, words
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