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:

    “And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.”
    —Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    “We say God and the imagination are one . . .
    How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    ““... 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)