Irving Layton

(300 votes)   If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.

Irving Layton
1912-, Canadian Poet

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

Irving Layton
1912-, Canadian Poet

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(69 votes)   Progress of a marriage: ''There was a time when you couldn't make me happy. Now the time has come when you can make me unhappy.''

Irving Layton
1912-, Canadian Poet

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

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(51 votes)   Idealist: a cynic in the making.

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

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

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(47 votes)   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.

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(46 votes)   My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

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(43 votes)   Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

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

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