Famous quotes containing the words small, black and/or powder:
“When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captains exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country withoutoh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“The body is no body to be seen
But is an eye that studies its black lid.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“We are powerless,
dust and powder fill our lungs
our bodies blunder
through doors twisted on hinges.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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