Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:
“He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world.... He is power, passion, self-will personified.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“Why silk is soft and the stone wounds
The child shall question all his days,
Why night-time rain and the breasts blood
Both quench his thirst hell have a black reply.”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“The road became a channel running flocks
Of glossy birds like ripples over rocks.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
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