Heart

Heart

The heart is a hollow muscle that pumps blood throughout the blood vessels by repeated, rhythmic contractions. It is found in all animals with a circulatory system (including all vertebrates).

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Famous quotes containing the word heart:

    “O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
    Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary’s feet.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The green trees when I saw them first through one of the gates transported and ravished me, their sweetness and unusual beauty made my heart to leap, and almost mad with ecstasy, they were such strange and wonderful things.”
    —Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)

    “What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)