Ancient Silk Road

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

    Do not remove the ancient landmark that your ancestors set up.
    Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 22:28.

    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 rangey bough anticipated fruit
    With snowballs cupped in every opening bud.
    The road alone maintained itself in mud....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)