from Apollonio, Umbro ed. Documents of 20th Century Art: Futurist Manifestos. Brain, Robert; RW Flint, JC Higgitt, and Caroline Tisdall, trans. New York: Viking Press, 1973. 19-24
The Founding Manifesto of Futurism – F.T. Marinetti
“‘Let’s go!’ I said, ‘Friends, away! Let’s go! Mythology and the Mystic Ideal are defeated at last. We’re about to see the Centaur’s birth and, soon after, the first flight of Angels! … We must shake at the gates of life, test the bolts and hinges. Lets go! Look there, on the earth, the very first dawn! There’s nothing to match the splendor of the sun’s red sword, slashing for the first time through our millennial gloom!”
“We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness”