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
   
T. S. Eliot   Name:
T. S. Eliot
Type:
Poet
Nationality:
American
Birth:
September 26, 1888
Death:
January 4, 1965
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