Ancient Silk Road

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 (1778–1830)

“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 became a channel running flocks
Of glossy birds like ripples over rocks.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)