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 Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian? - Irving Layton
A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?
- Irving Layton
By walking, I found out where I was going. - Irving Layton
By walking, I found out where I was going.
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a… - Irving Layton
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a…
how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world. - Irving Layton
how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry. - Irving Layton
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
A political leader worthy of assassination - Irving Layton
A political leader worthy of assassination
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… - Irving Layton
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…
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love - Irving Layton
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free. - Irving Layton
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
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