Ancient Silk Road

Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:

    “Here is the ancient floor,
    Footworn and hollowed and thin
    Here was the former door
    Where the dead feet walked in.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “Why silk is soft and the stone wounds
    The child shall question all his days,
    Why night-time rain and the breast’s blood
    Both quench his thirst he’ll have a black reply.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “The road to wisdom?—Well, it’s plain
    and simple to express:
    Err
    and err
    and err again
    but less
    and less
    and less.”
    —Piet Hein (b. 1905)