Small Black Powder

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

    “The whisky on your breath
    Could make a small boy dizzy;
    But I hung on like death;
    Such waltzing was not easy.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “The wings of Time are black and white,
    Pied with morning and with night.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Despite my asbestos gloves,
    the cough is filling me with black,
    and a red powder seeps through my veins....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)