Small Black Powder

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

    “Nothing can we call our own but death,
    And that small model of the barren earth
    Which serves as paste and cover to our bones.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “the black wings
    of the

    hospital where
    nothing

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

    “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)