Ancient Silk Road

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

    “No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a man’s ego like an automobile.”
    —Sir William Rootes (1894–1964)

    “Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall
    She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens,
    And she is dying piecemeal
    of a sort of emotional anemia.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length
    How drifts are piled,
    Dooryard and road ungraded,
    Till even the comforting barn grows far away,
    And my heart owns a doubt
    Whether ‘tis in us to arise with day
    And save ourselves unaided.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)