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Atticus

(15,124 posts) Wed Apr 22, 2020, 08:06 AM Apr 2020

Yeats was a prophet--- [View all]

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world---"

"---The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

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Yeats was a prophet--- [View all] Atticus Apr 2020 OP

When I was a sophomore in high school, my English teacher, John Sheehy Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2020 #1

A terrible beauty is born Sanity Claws Apr 2020 #2

I kept think of those words when I traveled Ireland tavernier Apr 2020 #5

The full poem: kentuck Apr 2020 #3

...the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.' keithbvadu2 Apr 2020 #4