The Second Coming Quotes

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. (lines 5-8)

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; (lines 1-2)

"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed" (lines 3-5)

"Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned;" (lines 4-6)

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; (lines 1-2)