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T. S. Eliot Quotes

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - T. S. Eliot (The Music of Poetry Quotes)

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job.

Source:The Music of Poetry (1942); in On Poetry and Poets (ed. Faber & Faber, 1957), Page 37
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  • Name: T. S. Eliot
  • Profession: Poet, Writer
  • Born: September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965
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