Famous quotes containing the word beast:
“his head
May not lie on the breast nor his lips on the hair
Of the woman that he loves, until he dies.
O beast of the wilderness, bird of the air,
Must I endure your amorous cries?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“what are we,
The beast that walks upright, with speaking lips
And little hair, to think we should always be fed,
Sheltered, intact, and self-controlled?”
—Robinson Jeffers (18871962)
“Underwater eyes, an eels
Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter:”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)
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