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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
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T. S. Eliot

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Ronald Reagan

In my beginning is my end.
T. S. Eliot

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