English-Irish translation by Áine Mills

Anarchy reigns. We anxiously await the dawn of an impending and as-of-yet somewhat ambiguous new era as it lumbers towards us.

IRISH An tAteacht

translated by Áine Mills

Ag casadh ’s ag casadh sa ghirfeacht leathnaithe Ní féidir leis an seabhac an seabhcóir a chloisteáil; Titeann rudaí as a chéile; ní sheasann an lár; Scaoiltear an ainrialtacht lom leis an domhan, Scaoiltear an taoide doiléirithe ag an bhfuil, agus chuile áit Báitear searmanas na soineantachta; Easpa diongbháilteachta sa chuid is fearr, agus an chuid is measa Lán den dúdhiongbháilteacht.

Ní féidir é ach go bhfuil nochtadh éigin chugainn; Ní féidir é ach go bhfuil an tAteacht chugainn. An tAteacht! Ar éigean na focail sin amuigh Sula ngoilleann ollíomhá as Spiritus Mundi Ar mo radharc: áit éigin i ngaineamh an fhásaigh Cruth ar a bhfuil corp leoin agus ceann fir, Stánadh chomh folamh agus míthrócaireach leis an ngrian, A chuid leasracha malla á mbogadh aige, agus mórthimpeall air Scáileanna éin dhiomúcha an fhásaigh ag rothlú. Titeann an dorchadas an athuair; ach tá a fhios agam anois Gur chorraigh cliabhán ag luascadh Fiche céad de chodladh gan chorraí ina thromluí, Agus cén t-onchú, a ionú aige faoi dheireadh, A thagann go malltriallach go Beithil lena bhreith?

ENGLISH Aphorisms on Futurism

by Mina Loy

Painter-poet Mina Loy published this futurist manifesto in photographer Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work. Here, her clairvoyant writing not only addresses the visions

DIE in the Past Live in the Future.

THE velocity of velocities arrives in starting.

IN pressing the material to derive its essence, matter becomes deformed.

AND form hurtling against itself is thrown beyond the synopsis of vision.

THE straight line and the circle are the parents of design, form the basis of art; there is no limit to their coherent variability.

LOVE the hideous in order to find the sublime core of it.

OPEN your arms to the dilapidated; rehabilitate them.

YOU prefer to observe the past on which your eyes are already opened.

BUT the Future is only dark from outside. Leap into it—and it EXPLODES with Light.

FORGET that you live in houses, that you may live in yourself—

FOR the smallest people live in the greatest houses.