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“I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.”

I Can Age Faces Train Aging Sixty Camels Samarkand

Author:Glenda Jackson

“For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.”

Should Known Knowledge Knowing Lust Golden Samarkand

Author:James Elroy Flecker

“We have great cities to visit: New York and Washington, Paris and London; and further east, and older than any of these, the legendary city of Samarkand, whose crumbling palaces and mosques still welcome travelers on the Silk road. Weary of cities? Then we’ll take to the wilds. To the islands of Hawaii and the mountains of Japan, to forests where Civil War dead still lie, and stretches of sea no mariner ever crossed. They all have their poetry: the glittering cities and the ruined, the watery wastes and the dusty; I want to show you them all. I want to show you everything.”

“One magician demanded I show him an image of the love of his life. I rustled up a mirror.”

Shows Mirrors Magician Samarkand Bartimaeus Trilogy

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“The Amulet of Samarkand. It was Simon Lovelace's. Now it is yours. Soon it will be Simon Lovelace's again. Take it and enjoy the consequences.”

Enjoy Consequence Amulets Samarkand

Book:Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)

Source: Bartimaeus Trilogy, Book One: Amulet of Samarkand, The (International Edition)

“Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.”

Ifs Life May Life Is Death Dies Stars Forever Fate Sky Dying Youth Wall Waste All Things Sand Mud Cricket Passing Away Impermanence Love Again Babylon Samarkand

Book:Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher

Source: Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher

“Every age has its dreams, its symbols of romance. Past generations were moved by the graceful power of the great windjammers, by the distant whistle of locomotives pounding through the night, by the caravans leaving on the Golden Road to Samarkand, by quinqueremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir . . . Our grandchildren will likewise have their inspiration-among the equatorial stars. They will be able to look up at the night sky and watch the stately procession of the Ports of Earth-the strange new harbors where the ships of space make their planetfalls and their departures.”

Source: the Promise of Space