Small Black Powder

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

    “On the day of breasts and small hips
    the window pocked with bad rain,
    rain coming on like a minister,
    we coupled, so sane and insane.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “a long shot at long odds, a black mare
    By Hatred out of Envy by Despair.”
    —James Vincent Cunningham (1911–1985)

    “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)