Small Black Powder

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

    “Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
    When that this body did contain a spirit,
    A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
    But now two paces of the vilest earth
    Is room enough.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
    my thoughts are spent
    as the black seeds.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “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)