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:
“A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. Then he is instructed in what is set above him. He learns that his being is without bound; that to the good, to the perfect, he is born, low as he now lies in evil and weakness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. The heart has its reasons which reason does not know of.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
“... the heart monitor,
the death cricket bleeping.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)