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Irving Layton [1912-2006] Canadian
Rank: 101
Poet


Irving Peter Layton, OC was a Romanian-born Canadian poet. He was known for his "tell it like it is" style which won him a wide following, but also made him enemies. As T. Jacobs notes in his biography, Layton fought Puritanism throughout his life:


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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
101
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
102
Idealist: a cynic in the making.
103
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.
104
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
105
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
106
Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
107
I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
108

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