Small Candle

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or candle:

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space.”
—Anonymous Woman (c. mid–1800s)

“The yellow pool has overflowed high up on Clooth-na-Bare,
For the wet winds are blowing out of the clinging air;
Like heavy flooded waters our bodies and our blood;
But purer than a tall candle before the Holy Rood
Is Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)