A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?

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.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.

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

Whom the gods do not intend to destroy, they first make mad with poetry.