“And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for. In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in a drawer? Well, I don't think that I ever loved you more Well let the poets cry themselves to sleep And all their tearful words will turn back into steam The sound of loneliness makes me happier.” ThinkingWellsMadeTurnsWaitingSoundSleepLonelinessCryPoetClothesBirdThis LifeAshamedYellowLocksSteamDrawersPolaroids Author:Conor Oberst
“Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.” MenWorldLongTurnsWhiteRaceLeaderTreatsBurdenTreatedYellowAsiaWorld LeaderWhite RaceColossus Book:Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia Source: Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia
“Autumn is the American season. In Europe the leaves turn yellow or brown, and fall. Here they take fire on the trees and hang there flaming. We think this frost-fire is a portent somehow: a promise that the continent has given us. Life, too, we think, is capable of taking fire in this country; of creating beauty never seen.” ThinkingCountryTurnsFallGivenFireTreePromiseCreatingCapableEuropeSeasonsBrownAutumnYellowContinentsFrostCreating BeautyPortents Author:Archibald MacLeish