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)

    “O bid me mount and sail up there
    Amid the cloudy wrack,
    For Peg and Meg and Paris’ love
    That had so straight a back,
    Are gone away, and some that stay
    Have changed their silk for sack.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
    —Philip Roth (b. 1933)