Small Black Powder

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

“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
And black despair succeeds brown study.”
—William Congreve (1670–1729)

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