“Pound's crazy. All poets are…. They have to be.”

— Ernest Hemingway

As quoted in The New York Post (24 January 1957)
Context: Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. For history's sake we shouldn't keep him there.

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American author and journalist 1899–1961

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