Candles

Famous quotes containing the word candles:

    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)

    “... 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)

    Both nuns and mothers worship images,
    But those the candles light are not as those
    That animate a mother’s reveries,
    But keep a marble or a bronze repose.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)