Beats

Famous quotes containing the word beats:

“Mind in its purest play is like some bat
That beats about in caverns all alone,
Contriving by a kind of senseless wit
Not to conclude against a wall of stone.”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)

“Heaven, I’m in heaven
And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak.”
—Irving Berlin (1888–1989)