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Irving Layton
March 12, 1912 - January 4, 2006
Nationality: Canadian
Category: Poet
Subcategory: Canadian Poet

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

   

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.

   

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.

   

My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.

   

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

   

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

   

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