“For to what end is our experience of life if deprived of a fitting esthetic revelation in our faces?” Imagining the ageing face as a meaningful record of lived experience · Pamphlet, Auto-Facial-Construction, 1919 Beauty Memory Time
“Day by day the new interests and activities of modern life are prolonging the youth of our souls.” Suggesting that intellectual vitality can preserve a sense of inward youth · Pamphlet, Auto-Facial-Construction, 1919 Beauty Hope Time
“Today is the crisis in consciousness.” Condensing the modernist sense of cultural upheaval into a single assertion · Aphorisms on Futurism, 1914 Time Truth
“The Futurist can live a thousand years in one poem.” Imagining art as capable of compressing extraordinary ranges of experience · Aphorisms on Futurism, 1914 Art Poetry Time
“The Future is limitless—the past a trail of insidious reactions.” A characteristic Futurist rejection of inherited constraints · Aphorisms on Futurism, 1914 Hope Time
“But the Future is only dark from outside. Leap into it—and it Explodes with Light.” Presenting uncertainty as something transformed through courageous engagement · Aphorisms on Futurism, 1914 Hope Time
“You prefer to observe the past on which your eyes are already opened.” Challenging the safety and familiarity of inherited perspectives · Aphorisms on Futurism, 1914 Time Truth
“Die in the past. Live in the future.” Urging radical release from inherited habits and commitments · Essay / aphorism Hope Time
