What is rock bit beast?

Famous quotes containing the words rock, bit and/or beast:

    The forest waves, the morning breaks,
    The pastures sleep, ripple the lakes,
    Leaves twinkle, flowers like persons be
    And life pulsates in rock or tree.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deep rooted and every bit as crippling to the woman as the assumptions of white supremacy are to the Negro.... this is no more a man’s world than it is a white world.
    Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, African American civil rights organization. SNCC Position Paper (Women in the Movement)

    what are we,
    The beast that walks upright, with speaking lips
    And little hair, to think we should always be fed,
    Sheltered, intact, and self-controlled?
    Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)