“The human heart beats itself to death.”
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“Peace to the weary and the beating heart,
That fed upon itself!”
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
“Whatever flames upon the night
Man’s own resinous heart has fed.”
W.B. Yeats book The Tower
II, st. 2 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/
“The fretful stir
Unprofitable, and the fever of the world
Have hung upon the beatings of my heart.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Source: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Lines completed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.
Sarra Manning (1950) British writer
Source: You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher
On Poesy or Art (1818)
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 122.
Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Context: To live is to be happy to live. The usefulness of life — ah! its expansion has not the mystic shapes we vainly dreamed of when we were paralyzed by youth. Rather has it a shape of anxiety, of shuddering, of pain and glory. Our heart is not made for the abstract formula of happiness, since the truth of things is not made for it either. It beats for emotion and not for peace. Such is the gravity of the truth.
Kenneth Rexroth (1905–1982) American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector
In Defense of the Earth (1956), She Is Away
Context: Now I know surely and forever,
However much I have blotted our
Waking love, its memory is still
there. And I know the web, the net,
The blind and crippled bird. For then, for
One brief instant it was not blind, nor
Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the
Heart was free and moved itself. O love,
I who am lost and damned with words,
Whose words are a business and an art,
I have no words. These words, this poem, this
Is all confusion and ignorance.
But I know that coached by your sweet heart,
My heart beat one free beat and sent
Through all my flesh the blood of truth.
Abu Musab Zarqawi (1966–2006) Jordanian jihadist
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in quotes https://www.irishtimes.com/news/abu-musab-al-zarqawi-in-quotes-1.786124 The Irish Times (29th April 2005)