T. S. Eliot - As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a...

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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 nothing.

T. S. Eliot

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Deutsche Übersetzung

So wie die Dinge sind und wie sie grundsätzlich sein müssen, ist Poesie keine Karriere, sondern ein Spiel der Becher. Kein ehrlicher Dichter kann sich je über den dauerhaften Wert dessen, was er geschrieben hat, ganz sicher fühlen: Er hat seine Zeit möglicherweise verschwendet und sein Leben umsonst versaut.

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