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:

    “How far that little candle throws his beams!
    So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

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

    ““Not to die on the straw at home,
    Those hands to close these eyes,
    That is all I ask, my dear,
    From the old man in the skies.”
    Day-break and a candle end.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)