“Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold…”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
“When the center does not hold, the circle falls apart.”
— Laozi
This is a paraphrase of lines in "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats.
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