William Butler Yeats Quotes
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
Yeats, W. B. "The Second Coming." Michael Robartes and the Dancer, Cuala Press, 1920, p. 19.
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The attacks on slavery were growing and the more slavery was attacked in Congress, the greater the talk of secession. It would be over a decade before secession actually took place.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
