„I have lit my treasured candles,
one by one, to hallow this night.“
Poem without a Hero (1963)
Kontext: I have lit my treasured candles,
one by one, to hallow this night.
With you, who do not come,
I wait the birth of the year.
Dear God!
the flame has drowned in crystal,
and the wine, like poison, burns
Old malice bites the air,
old ravings rave again,
though the hour has not yet struck.
Anna Andrejewna Achmatowa
russische Dichterin und Schriftstellerin 1889 - 1966Ähnliche Zitate
„Everybody is a candle, true. But not everybody is lit.“
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi Indian-American Sikh Yogi 1929 - 2004
The Eight Human Talents (2001)
— Gautama Buddha philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism -563 - -483 v.Chr
From The Teaching of Buddha http://www.bdk.or.jp/english/about/popularization/buddhist-scriptures.html, by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (Society for the Promotion of Buddhism), Pg 132. It is a paraphrased version of Section 10 of the Sutra of Forty-two Sections
Unclassified
„Now we have lit a candle to the power
Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light
Itself…“
— Philip José Farmer American science fiction writer 1918 - 2009
Sestina of the Space Rocket (1953)
„For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye….“
— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie
Tom, Scene Seven
Quelle: The Glass Menagerie (1944)
Kontext: Oh, Laura, Laura, I tried to leave you behind me, but I am more faithful than I intended to be! I reach for a cigarette, I cross the street, I run into the movies or a bar, I buy a drink, I speak to the nearest stranger — anything that can blow your candles out! — for nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles Laura — and so goodbye…
— Thich Nhat Tu Vietnamese philosopher 1969
Inner Freedom: A Spiritual Journey for Prison Inmates (2008)
— Roald Dahl, buch Boy
Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
Misattributed
Variante: My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.
Quelle: Boy: Tales of Childhood
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, buch A Few Figs from Thistles
Misattributed
Quelle: Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, buch A Child's Garden of Verses
Bed in Summer, st. 1.
A Child's Garden of Verses (1885)
— Wallace Stevens, buch Harmonium
"Valley Candle"
Harmonium (1923)
Kontext: My candle burned alone in an immense valley.
Beams of the huge night converged upon it,
Until the wind blew.
Then beams of the huge night
Converged upon its image,
Until the wind blew.
„We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.“
— Jorge Luis Borges Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature 1899 - 1986
— Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855
Quelle: Entweder / Oder
„I found the candles—atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine.“
— Richelle Mead, buch The Golden Lily
Quelle: The Golden Lily
— Stanley Baldwin Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1867 - 1947
Speech to the thirtieth anniversary of the Junior Imperial League in Kingsway Hall (19 June 1926), quoted in Our Inheritance (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938), p. 19.
1926
— Gloria Estefan Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada 1957
comment to audience at book signing at Macy's in New York City (November 21, 2006)
2007, 2008
