37 Quotes by Irving Layton

An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness....

A political leader worthy of assassination

To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.

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.

Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.

Death is a name for beauty not in use.

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

By walking, I found out where I was going.

how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.