When WB Yeats wrote “The Second Coming” in 1919, he inadvertently performed a service for generations of journalists. Faced with a political crisis, commentators can always reach for the familiar quote: “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold”, before going on to note that: “The best lack all conviction; while the worst are full of passionate intensity”
當愛爾蘭詩人葉芝(William Butler Yeats)在1919年寫下《第二次降臨》(The Second Coming)時，他在無意中幫了后世的新聞從業者一個大忙。面對政治危機，評論員們總能引用那句耳熟能詳的名言：“萬物分崩離析，中間無法維系”，然后指出：“最優秀的人缺乏信念，而最差的人激情滿懷”。
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