Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet…

Ernest Hemingway
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Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin. ✨ The New York Post Newspaper, January 24, 1957.
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