Small Black Powder

Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:

    “He zigzagged.
    He was a knotted hiss.
    He was an insane hash
    Of rebellious small strengths”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “the black wings
    of the

    hospital where
    nothing

    will grow”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “Despite my asbestos gloves,
    the cough is filling me with black,
    and a red powder seeps through my veins....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)