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 (16881744)
“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 (18651939)
“He taught me the mathematics of anatomy, but he couldnt teach me the poetry of medicine.... I feel that MacFarland had me on the wrong road, a road that led to knowledge, but not to healing.”
—Philip MacDonald, and Robert Wise. Fettes (Russell Wade)
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