Carter Beats The Devil

Famous quotes containing the words carter, beats and/or devil:

    Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn’t work too well.
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    A great black presence beats its wings in wrath.
    Above the boneyard burn its golden eyes.
    Some small grey fur is pulsing in its grip.
    Anthony Hecht (b. 1923)

    He remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the mediaeval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)