Ancient Silk Road

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

    Still green with bays each ancient altar stands
    Above the reach of sacrilegious hands,
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    Her fortune, too, lies there,
    Converted into cool hard steel
    And right red velvet lining;
    While over her tan impassivity
    Shot silk is shining.
    Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    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)