Small Black Powder

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

    “I don’t know much about death and the sorriest lesson I’ve learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone’s dying.”
    —Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

    “There with vast wings across the canceled skies,
    There in the sudden blackness the black pall
    Of nothing, nothing, nothing—nothing at all.”
    —Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)

    “My little ‘bout-town gal has gone
    ‘Bout town with powder and blue dye
    On her pale lids....”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)