Ancient Silk Road

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

    “I summon to the winding ancient stair;
    Set all your mind upon the steep ascent,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “O bid me mount and sail up there
    Amid the cloudy wrack,
    For Peg and Meg and Paris’ love
    That had so straight a back,
    Are gone away, and some that stay
    Have changed their silk for sack.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “By the road to the contagious hospital
    under the surge of the blue
    mottled clouds driven from the
    northwest—a cold wind.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)