Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot about Value

1 quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about value

Thomas Stearns Eliot English poet, dramatist and literary critic

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.

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