Candles

Famous quotes containing the word candles:

    Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day
    Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops.
    I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “... And maybe we are all the same
    Where no candles are,
    And maybe we are all the same
    That strip the body bare.”
    O my dear, O my dear.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    how seasonably
    leaf and blossom uncurl
    and living things arrange their death,
    while someone from afar off
    blows birthday candles for the world.
    Irving Layton (b. 1912)