As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing. - T. S. Eliot

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T. S. Eliot: "As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing."

T. S. Eliot's Quotations

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Career	Feel	Fundamentally	Game
Honest	Life	Messed	Mugs
Must	Nothing	Permanent	Poet
Poetry	Quite	Sure	Things
Time	Value	Wasted	Written

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