Beast

Famous quotes containing the word beast:

“Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“Underwater eyes, an eel’s
Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter:”
—Ted Hughes (b. 1930)

“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 (1865–1939)