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… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
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… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
And me happiest when I compose poems: Love, power, the huzza of battle are something, are much: yet a poem includes them like a… — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Only the tiniest fracton of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them theyare free. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
