Beast

Famous quotes containing the word beast:

“Strange thing me seemd to see a beast so wyld,
So goodly wonne with her owne will beguyld.”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

“I saw for a blazing moment
The great grassy world from both sides,
Man and beast in the round of their need,”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)

“Through light-obliterating garden foliage what magic drum?
Down limb and breast or down that glimmering belly move his mouth and sinewy tongue.
What from the forest came? What beast has licked its young?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)