Ancient Silk Road

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

    If I can catch him once upon the hip,
    I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    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 (1885–1972)

    He taught me the mathematics of anatomy, but he couldn’t teach me the poetry of medicine.... I feel that MacFarland had me on the wrong road, a road that led to knowledge, but not to healing.
    Philip MacDonald, and Robert Wise. Fettes (Russell Wade)