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.

Read more about Candle.

Famous quotes containing the word candle:

    ““... I have what no young man can have
    Because he loves too much.
    Words I have that can pierce the heart,
    But what can he do but touch?”
    Day-break and a candle end.
    ”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

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

    ““... But a coarse old man am I,
    I choose the second-best,
    I forget it all awhile
    Upon a woman’s breast.”
    Day-break and a candle end.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)