The Orient
The word “Orient” refers to east. It is a western word made to describe The east, meaning any country east of Europe. It has included countries from a wide spectrum, from Morocco to Japan, depending on the historical period in which the term was used.
Read more about this topic: Oriental Studies
Famous quotes containing the word orient:
“Of all that Orient lands can vaunt,
Of marvels with our own competing,
The strangest is the Haschish plant,
And what will follow on its eating.”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauty’s orient deep
These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.
Ask me no more whither do stray
The golden atoms of the day;
For in pure love heaven did prepare
Those powders to enrich your hair.”
—Thomas Carew (1589–1639)