Ancient Silk Road

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

    “Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
    In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.
    An ancestor was rector there
    Long years ago, a church stands near,
    By the road an ancient cross.
    No marble, no conventional phrase;
    On limestone quarried near the spot
    By his command these words are cut:
    Cast a cold eye
    On life, on death.
    Horseman pass by!”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “‘Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair,
    Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream
    That can entame my spirits to your worship.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The road became a channel running flocks
    Of glossy birds like ripples over rocks.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)