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)

“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)

“There’s husbandry in heaven,
Their candles are all out.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)