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Irving Layton Quotes

Type:
Poet Quotes
Category:
Canadian Poet Quotes
Date of Birth:
March 12, 1912
Nationality:
Canadian
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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

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton

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

Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton

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

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

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

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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