Beats

Famous quotes containing the word beats:

“When a rat crosses a street, everyone shouts and beats it.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The measured blood beats out the year’s delay.”
—Louise Bogan (1897–1970)

“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)