John Pomfret quote ✍️

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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.
Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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E
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E
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N
Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ENE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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