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)
“A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
—Chinese proverb.
“It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)
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