Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti (December 22, 1876 – December 2, 1944) was an Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and main founder of the futurist movement of the early 20th century.

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• We love the indomitable bellicose patriotism that sets you apart; we love the national pride that guides your muscularly courageous race; we love the potent individualism that doesn't prevent you from opening your arms to individualists of every land, whether libertarians or anarchists.
  • Speech, 1910, Lyceum Club, London. Futurist Speech to the English, published in Marinetti: Selected Writings (1972)

• There is no longer beauty except in the struggle. No more masterpieces without an aggressive character. Poetry must be a violent assault against the unknown forces in order to overcome them and prostrate them before men.
  • The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, Figaro (Paris, Feb. 20, 1909)

• The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?
  • We Abjure Our Symbolist Masters..., from War, the World's Only Hygiene (1911-1915)

• A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world—the beauty of speed.
  • The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism, Figaro (Paris, Feb. 20, 1909)

• A Race car is more beautiful than the Victory of Samotracia

External links

• Works by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti at Project Gutenberg
• MP3 of Marinetti performing one of his poems: 'Battaglia, Peso + Odore' (1912)
• MP3 of Marinetti performing one of his poems: 'Dune, parole in libertà' (1914) Score to this poem
• MP3 of Marinetti performing one of his poems: 'La Battaglia di Adrianopoli' (1926) recorded by Marinetti (1935)