Candles

Famous quotes containing the word candles:

“There’s husbandry in heaven,
Their candles are all out.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)

“O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary’s feet.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)