Small Black Powder

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

    “In the pink light
    the small red sun goes rolling, rolling,
    round and round and round at the same height
    in perpetual sunset,”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “there’s a kind of lust feeds on itself
    Unspoken to, unspeaking; subterranean
    As a black river full of eyeless fish
    Heavy with spawn; with a passion for time
    Longer than the arteries of a cave.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

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