Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
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
