Ancient Silk Road

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

    “A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black,
    A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawl
    Make him the quaint great figure that men love,
    The prairie-lawyer, master of us all.”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    “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)

    “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)