Samarkand Quotes:

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.

- Jonathan Stroud

topic: Amulets, Samarkand, Enjoy

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

- James Elroy Flecker

source: The Golden Journey to Samarkand pt. 1, "Epilogue" (1913)

topic: Knowledge, Knowing, Lust, Samarkand

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.

- John Gould Fletcher

source: John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.172, University of Arkansas Press

topic: Life, Stars, Wall, Samarkand, Babylon

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.

- Glenda Jackson

topic: Age, Camels, Faces, Samarkand

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.

- Arthur C. Clarke

topic: Dream, Stars, Inspiration, Samarkand, Locomotives

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.

- Clive Barker

source: "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

topic: New York, War, Lying, Mariners, Samarkand

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

- Jonathan Stroud

source: "The Amulet of Samarkand (Bartimaeus trilogy, Book 1)". Book by Jonathan Stroud, September 30, 2003.

topic: Mirrors, Magician, Shows, Samarkand, Bartimaeus Trilogy