Irving Layton
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"Irving Peter Layton", Order of Canada/OC was a Romanian-born Canada/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 (2001), Layton fought Religious fanaticism/Puritanism throughout his life:

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Idealist: a cynic in the making.

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

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

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

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

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

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

It amazes me that organs that piss/ Can give human beings such perfect bliss.

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.