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As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mugs 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

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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