Quotes About Trans-Siberian

You can only appreciate the engineering feat of the Trans-Siberian railway by travelling along it in winter. They might as well have laid tracks across Antarctica.

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu . Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.

I had my own compartment - plenty of space, plenty of provisions, the grapes, cookies, chocolates and tea that made being on the Trans-Siberian like a luxurious form of convalescence.