Small Black Powder

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

    “We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
    my thoughts are spent
    as the black seeds.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “We are powerless,
    dust and powder fill our lungs
    our bodies blunder
    through doors twisted on hinges.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)