Small Black Powder

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

“I don’t know much about death and the sorriest lesson I’ve learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone’s dying.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)

“I cut my teeth as the black raccoon—
For implements of battle.”
—Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

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