Considering what has happened to our fellow Americans in the last 2 weeks here is a quote from a very famous American, Muhammed Ali:
“Service to others is the rent we pay for our room on this planet.” |
Archive for September, 2017
“Things Fall Apart”
Posted: September 6, 2017 in QuotesTags: 09/11/2001, 16th anniversary of 9/11, The World Trade Center Journal, William Butler Yeats
I had posted this at the 1st anniversary of 9/11. Yeats definitely got it right for that year and for now!
The Second Coming – William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?