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"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold"
“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold” is from W. B. Yeats's indelible poem about chaos, The Second Coming. The phrase kept entering my mind as an apt metaphor for what happens in our daily lives and what is happening in the world.
In this current moment it often seems that our world is falling apart, from the mundane experience of annoying internet error messages to news of war in Ukraine.
A delightful read and an excellent summary of all the ways Yeats’s poem has influenced culture in the past 100 years is here. The Guardian calls it “the most plundered poem in the English language.”
