Quotes by Irving Layton

Irving Layton

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, ‘What is a Canadian?

Asking

A poet is deeply conflicted and it’s in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn’t set the world in order, you know, it’s the place of reconciliation. It’s the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

Kissing

Order

World

A political leader worthy of assassination

Leader

Political

Worthy

An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, … and leave a little soreness.

Aphorism

Littles

Should

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

Poetry

Reflection

Water

By walking, I found out where I was going.

Found

Walking

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

Looks

United States

Usa

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Conscience

Halos

Self Esteem

Death is a name for beauty not in use.

Names

Use

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

Funny

God

Humorous

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Found

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Giving

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Halos

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Madness

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Minutes

Misanthrope

Names

Neighbor

Order

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Quotes by Irving Layton

Irving Layton

A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, ‘What is a Canadian?

A poet is deeply conflicted and it’s in his work that he reconciles those deep conflicts. The place is the harbor. It doesn’t set the world in order, you know, it’s the place of reconciliation. It’s the Consolamentum, the kiss of peace.

A political leader worthy of assassination

An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, … and leave a little soreness.

And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.

By walking, I found out where I was going.

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

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

Death is a name for beauty not in use.

God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.

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