“Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet li...” — Ernest Hemingway Quote

“Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.”

“This was the greatest gift that he had, the talent that fitted him for war; that ability not to ignore but to despise whatever bad ending there could be. This quality was destroyed by too much responsibility for others or the necessity of undertaking something ill planned or badly conceived. For in such things the bad ending, failure, could not be ignored. It was not simply a possibility of harm to one's self, which”