Two New Saints, Now What?

The most lasting line of poetry written in the 20th century is this: "Things fall apart; the center cannot hold."

That is a sentence familiar to people who have never heard of William Butler Yeats or his poem, "The Second Coming." In 22 lines, Yeats described the social and spiritual erosions he saw at the end of World War I.

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