Small Black Powder

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

    “Nothing would give up life;
    Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “I put on
    the body-armor of black rubber
    the absurd flippers
    the grave and awkward mask.”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “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)