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Irving Layton Quotes

1912–2006 Canada

Irving Layton, OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006), born as Israel Pincu Lazarovitch, was a Romanian-born Canadian poet.

Canada
Academics
Poets

Also known as: Layton, Irving

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

The Whole Bloody Bird (1969)

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

The Whole Bloody Bird (1969)

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

The Whole Bloody Bird (1969)

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

The Whole Bloody Bird (1969)

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.

The Whole Bloody Bird (1969)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Irving Layton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.