W. B. Yeats (Irish, 1865–1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and mystic; Nobel laureate and central figure in Irish literary revival, known for The Second Coming and Sailing to Byzantium. A card for breakdowns, transitions, or the edge of chaos. Yeats captures the eerie poetry of unraveling order. From The Second Coming, written 1919, published 1920.

This quote dates from c. 1919—1920.