Ancient Silk Road

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

    He stood bewildered, not appalled, on that dark shore which separates the ancient and the modern world.... He is power, passion, self-will personified.
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

    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)

    Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)