Small Black Powder

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

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”
—Russell Lynes (b. 1910)

“... burned to tireless death
A child of a few hours
With its kneading mouth
Charred on the black breast of the grave
The mother dug, and its arms full of fires ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“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)