Beat

Famous quotes containing the word beat:

    “A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “Brothers and sisters rocking, a dread beat pulsing fire, burning.”
    —Linton Kwesi Johnson (b. 1952)

    “the grave,
    so humble, so willing to be beat upon
    with its awful lettering and
    the body lying underneath
    without an umbrella.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)