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1. 'The center cannot hold . . .'

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Feb 5, 2025, 04:56 PM

Feb 5

"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold" is from William Butler Yeats's poem "The Second Coming"

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity”

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Top Democrat thwarts Trump with clever move - Brian Tyler Cohen [View all] TexasTowelie Feb 5 OP

'The center cannot hold . . .' elleng Feb 5 #1

Yeats came to Georgetown, Texas and visited my alma mater when he was older. TexasTowelie Feb 5 #2

WOW! elleng Feb 5 #3