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Irving Layton
Canadian
Poet
About the author
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Irving Layton,
Canadian
Poet
#Will
#Shakespeare
#Genius
#Poems
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton,
Canadian
Poet
#Cynic
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Irving Layton,
Canadian
Poet
#Leader
#Canada
#Assassination
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Irving Layton,
Canadian
Poet
#Want
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
Irving Layton,
Canadian
Poet
#Love
#Soul
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton,
Canadian
Poet
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,
Canadian
Poet
#Right
#Hell
#states
#United
#Canada
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving Layton,
Canadian
Poet
#Self