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'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold' is a famous line from the 1919 poem 'The Second Coming' by which Irish poet?

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William Butler Yeats

Yeats was a pillar of the Irish literary establishment and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

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