Famous quotes containing the words incense and/or powder:
“Flies, acolytes
of the death-in-life temple
buzz their prayers
and from the altar
of excrement arises
an incense ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“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)