Aleister Crowley
English occultist (1875-1947)
Irving Layton
Romanian-born Canadian poet
Irving Peter Layton, OCwas 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 him enemies.
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Irving Peter Layton, OCwas 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 him enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography (2001), Layton fought Puritanism throughout his life:
Layton’s work had provided the bolt of lightning that was needed to split open the thin skin of conservatism and complacency in the poetry scene of the preceding century, allowing modern poetry to expose previously unseen richness and depth.
8 Quotes by 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 LaytonRomanian-born Canadian poet
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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 LaytonRomanian-born Canadian poet
- 3.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving LaytonRomanian-born Canadian poet
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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 LaytonRomanian-born Canadian poet
- 5.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Irving LaytonRomanian-born Canadian poet
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
Irving LaytonRomanian-born Canadian poet
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My neighbor doesn’t want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
Irving LaytonRomanian-born Canadian poet
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
Irving LaytonRomanian-born Canadian poet