Famous quotes containing the words small and/or candle:
“I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one;”
—Theodore Roethke (19081963)
“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 (18651939)
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