Small Black Powder

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

    “It is in the small things we see it.
    The child’s first step,
    as awesome as an earthquake.
    The first time you rode a bike,
    wallowing up the sidewalk.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Let the Brazos
    Freeze solid! And the Wabash turn to a leaden
    Cinder of ice! The Marañon is too tepid, we must
    Is freezing slowly in the blasts. The black Yonne
    Congeals nicely.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “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)