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)

“Come, let me sing into your ear;
Those dancing days are gone,
All that silk and satin gear;
Crouch upon a stone,
Wrapping that foul body up
In as foul a rag....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)