Felix Dennis quote ✍️

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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
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