“Poetry is prose bewitched, a music made of visual thoughts, the sound of an idea.”
Source: The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy
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Futurist poet and actress 1882–1966Related quotes
“Sound poetry is a fusion of music and literature.”
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