A MUG'S GAME?

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The  phrase that   labelled  poetry  "a mug's game" is from the poet TS Eliot. What do you think?.


"[Poetry] may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves." "Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality." "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. "

This idea of THE MUG'S GAME may be  more the problem of a career poet, but it does not apply to the  poetic vocation. Since I believe in universal creativity and have found that idea of creativity as a basic  human trait--in fact one of the defining traits of humanity- has received support and confirmation from  psychologists.

What this means is that  the fact that most people do not  exercise their creative gifts is a problem for society and a loss.
So I see  it as an imperative for all teachers, parents and  adult guides to  create an atmosphere that is encouraging  and nurturing to creative  impulses in the young and the old, rich and poor.