Beats

Famous quotes containing the word beats:

“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)

“Grant me an old man’s frenzy.
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that William Blake
Who beats upon the wall
Till truth obeyed his call....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)