Famous quotes containing the words ancient, silk and/or road:
“Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you cant even think straight.”
—Marilyn French (b. 1929)
“Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
And she is dying piecemeal
of a sort of emotional anemia.”
—Ezra Pound (18851972)
“The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.”
—William Jones (17461794)
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