This pharase has interested me for years as something to think about. I have my own ideas about what Yeats meant, but would like to know what others think. This could even be a phrase lifted from a scholarly work. I have never researched it, I must admit.
[I]Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarch
The Ceremony of Innocence
[I]Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarch
