"Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“Humility is not disgraceful, and carries no loss of true pride.”
“It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat rack to dry and put my worn and weathered felt hat on the rack above the bench and ordered a cafe au lait. The waiter brought it and I took out a notebook from the pocket of the coat and a pencil and started to write.”
“At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.”
More on Poetry
“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.”
“Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.”
“Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!”
More on Creativity
“Research is not seeing what others do not see, it is seeing the same thing as other people and thinking what they do not.”
“Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode.”
“The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity.”