Small Black Powder

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

    “We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “And my eyes are blue;
    So ferry me across the water,
    Do, boatman, do!”

    “Step into my ferry-boat,
    Be they black or blue,”
    —Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830–1894)

    “Despite my asbestos gloves,
    the cough is filling me with black,
    and a red powder seeps through my veins....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)