Candles

Famous quotes containing the word candles:

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

““... 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)