Heart

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:

    “I cast my heart into my rhymes,
    That you, in the dim coming times,
    May know how my heart went with them
    After the red-rose-bordered hem.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Now that I have your heart by heart, I see.”
    —Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

    “who cooked rotten animals lung heart feet tailborscht & tortillas
    dreaming of the pure vegetable kingdom,”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)