Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:
“It is in the small things we see it.
The childs first step,
as awesome as an earthquake.
The first time you rode a bike,
wallowing up the sidewalk.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Let the Brazos
Freeze solid! And the Wabash turn to a leaden
Cinder of ice! The MaraƱon is too tepid, we must
Is freezing slowly in the blasts. The black Yonne
Congeals nicely.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“Uncle Bens brass bullet-mould
And powder horn, and Major Bogans face
Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
Theres naught to kill but the animated dead;”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
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