A Canadian is someone who keeps asking the question, 'What is a Canadian?
Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.
My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
To this pass Christianity has come There is no God, and Jesus is his son.
Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live.
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.