Ancient Silk Road

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

    Still green with bays each ancient altar stands
    Above the reach of sacrilegious hands,
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    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)

    I wonder how far down the road he’s got.
    He’s watching from the woods as like as not.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)