Forum Post: The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand;

Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 6, 2011, 7:45 a.m. EST by queenann (-220) from New Rochelle, NY
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THE SECOND COMING

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.

WB Yeats

Yeats description of those filled with a passionate intensity fits the OWS crowd.

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I MET a Traveler from an antique land, Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings." Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair! No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away.

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Forum Post: The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand;

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