Camera Work: A Photographic Quarterly (1914 (Heft 46))

VISION

Moment-mine, stay!
That I may sense, one instant longer than can be,
Your perfectness.
What strange, undetermined atoms,
What helpless, ecstatic, tearful atoms,
Held still a moment by a star or spark
And by a trick of time—inverted.
When shall we learn to find the formative shapes
Of things to become—and being, to become more perfectly?
When shall we demand enough ?
Require greatness from all?
Reach intensity?
Then—moment-mine—I shall not ask;
For I shall be greater than you!
Katharine N. Rhoades.

There is no Life or Death,
Only activity
And in the absolute
Is no declivity.
There is no Love or Lust
Only propensity
Who would possess
Is a nonentity.
There is no First or Last
Only equality
And who would rule
Joins the majority.
There is no Space or Time
Only intensity,
And tame things
Have no immensity.

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Mina Loy.