| Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988. |
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| NUMBER: | 7360 |
| AUTHOR: | T S Eliot |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Recalled on his death 4 Jun 65 |
| SUBJECTS: | Communications & the Arts: Literature: Observers & Critics |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | T S Eliot Collection. |
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