Irving Layton
Irving Layton
Irving Peter Layton, OCwas 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:...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth12 March 1912
CountryCanada
Irving Layton quotes about
perfect giving bliss
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.
mad firsts
Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.
reflection water poetry
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a pool water and reflection.
littles aphorism soreness
An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness....
leader political worthy
A political leader worthy of assassination
jesus son christianity
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.
kissing order world
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.
want mankind
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free.
names use
Death is a name for beauty not in use.
self saws horror
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
found walking
By walking, I found out where I was going.
blow world afar
how seasonably leaf and blossom uncurl and living things arrange their death, while someone from afar off blows birthday candles for the world.
self madness misanthrope
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
clever arguing argument
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.