Candle

Candle

A candle is a solid block of wax with an embedded wick, which is lit to provide light, and sometimes heat, and historically as a method of keeping time.

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Famous quotes containing the word candle:

    “My candle burns at both ends;
    It will not last the night;
    But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
    It gives a lovely light.”
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    “Snow, snow over the whole land
    across all boundaries.
    The candle burned on the table,
    the candle burned.”
    —Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)

    “The yellow pool has overflowed high up on Clooth-na-Bare,
    For the wet winds are blowing out of the clinging air;
    Like heavy flooded waters our bodies and our blood;
    But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood
    Is Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)