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Houses hold virgins
The doors on the chain
‘Plumb streets with hearts’
‘Bore curtains with eyes’
Virgins without dots
Stare beyond probability
See the men pass
Their hats are not ours
We …
Contributor:
Mina Loy
Places:
Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1914
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To Professor Cesare Lombroso in Turin. Most esteemed and dear teacher!
I dedicate this book to you, in order to express aloud that I would not have been able to write this…
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Max Nordau
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Kingdom of Italy (Italy, Italy)
Date:
1896
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Honored colleagues!
One sole consideration persuades me to accept the very high office to which your vote has appointed me, when dwindling forces barely enable the modest duties of teachers and of…
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Ernesto Nathan
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1906
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And now I will reveal to you why we call the Sabbath before Passover “the Great Sabbath.”
Know that the minister of Egypt is Aries [the ram], and Scorpio, which is with Aries, and its angel is Samael…
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Solomon Molkho, Solomon Molkho
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First Quarter of the 16th Century
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The tour of inspection on which I invited you to accompany me during this course has come to an end. We must now retrace our steps and review the results achieved by our tour…
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Umberto Cassuto
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1934
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The Messiah of Israel does not come to redeem men from some original sin they never committed, nor from sins which they can liberate themselves of every day, through divine mercy and their own powers…
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Dante A. Lattes
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1923
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Over and over, yes, over and over,
I shook the pinions of my anger,
Again and again you broke faith with me,
And I stormed at your crop of iniquity.
But over and over, and over and over,
Your songs…
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Kurt Wolfskehl
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1934
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The feminist movement as at present instituted is Inadequate
Women if you want to realize yourselves—you are on the eve of a devastating psychological upheaval—all your pet illusions must be…
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Mina Loy
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy (Florence, Italy)
Date:
1914
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You understand, my sweet confessor, that I could be even more of a sinner than not, and I hope just the same for your absolution. In the meantime, I will tell you that after…
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Ettore Schmitz
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Trieste, Kingdom of Italy (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1896
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Mother, there’s a tedium today,
some sadness that’s got into everything,
even an ambitious man’s dreams
show signs of a slow despair.
Mother, try loving
your self-despising son
on a day he’s alone
an…
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Umberto (Poli) Saba
Places:
Trieste, Kingdom of Italy (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1900–1907