37 Quotes by 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 misanthrope.

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.

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.

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

A political leader worthy of assassination.

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.

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

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.