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Quotation from The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,”
The Second Coming, Lines 3-4 (Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Cuala Press, 1920))
The plain statement of collapse that has become a byword for political breakdown.
Citation: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world," — W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming, Lines 3-4 (Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Cuala Press, 1920)). (id the-second-coming-q2)
Portrait: Yeats1923, Unknown, Public domain.
