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The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats

Poem

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming · 1920
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Topic
Decline of civilizationMoral decline
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Poem
Time
1920
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W.B. Yeats
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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

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