Small Black Powder

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

    “Lost at night in an immense forest, I only have a small light to guide me. A man appears who tells me: “My friend, blow out your candle in order to find your way.” This man is a theologian.
    The sea, fluid garden filled with animals and plants.”
    —Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)

    “All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven
    ‘Tis gone.
    Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)