Ancient Silk Road

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

    To some extent, mythology is only the most ancient history and biography. So far from being false or fabulous in the common sense, it contains only enduring and essential truth, the I and you, the here and there, the now and then, being omitted. Either time or rare wisdom writes it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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)

    The rangey bough anticipated fruit
    With snowballs cupped in every opening bud.
    The road alone maintained itself in mud....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)