Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 454 |
| AUTHOR: | W. B. Yeats (1865–1939) |
| QUOTATION: | Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; 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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| SUBJECTS: | Doomsday |