Ancient Silk Road

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

    “We Irish, born into that ancient sect
    But thrown upon this filthy modern tide
    And by its formless spawning fury wrecked,
    Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace
    The lineaments of a plummet-measured face.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “A single strand of silk does not make a thread, nor a single tree a forest.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Down the road someone is practicing scales,
    The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)