Green Yellow Warning

Famous quotes containing the words green, yellow and/or warning:

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “But the yellow antipodal Kangaroo, when she sits up,
    Who can useat her, like a liquid drop that is heavy, and just
    touches earth.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,
    By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)