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Irving Layton

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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.


— Irving Layton


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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.


— Irving Layton


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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.


— Irving Layton


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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.


— Irving Layton


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Idealist: a cynic in the making.


— Irving Layton


#idealist #making

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.


— Irving Layton


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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.


— Irving Layton


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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.


— Irving Layton


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About Irving Layton






Did you know about Irving Layton?

League of Canadian Poets 1982. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart 1967. (cassette)
An Evening with Irving Layton.

Jacobs notes in his biography (2001) Layton fought Puritanism throughout his life:. Irving Peter Layton OC (March 12 1912 – January 4 2006) was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following but also made enemies.

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