Small Black Powder

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

    “To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.”
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    “That’s the down-town frieze,
    Principally the church steeple,
    A black line beside a white line;
    And the stack of the electric plant,
    A black line drawn on flat air.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Uncle Ben’s brass bullet-mould
    And powder horn, and Major Bogan’s face
    Above the fire, in the half-light, plainly said
    There’s naught to kill but the animated dead;”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)