Irving Layton
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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.
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.Collection: Self
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.Collection: Want
By walking, I found out where I was going.Collection: Found
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the loveCollection: Love
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.Collection: Funny
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 HellCollection: Usa
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.Collection: Kissing
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.Collection: Mad
A political leader worthy of assassinationCollection: Leader
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?Collection: Asking
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.Collection: Giving
Death is a name for beauty not in use.Collection: Names
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.Collection: Marriage
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and KeatsCollection: Genius
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.Collection: Jesus
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.Collection: Flames
I have stopped being a misanthrope.Collection: Misanthrope