According to Pablo Neruda, “We are made of earth and rain”.
At night I dream that you and I are two plants
that grew together, roots entwined,
and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth,
since we are made of earth and rain.
Pablo Neruda, Regalo De Un Poeta, Gift Of A Poet
“I looked at the window and thought: Why, yes, it’s just the rain, the rain, always the rain, and turned over…”. Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day’s last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night. F. Scott Fitzgeraldrain never wets your jacket
And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it’s always daisy-time. David Herbert Lawrence After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, OhioBarbara Delinsky – Rain didn’t make things messy. People did that all on their ownNight and rain
It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night. Jack Kerouac, On the Road Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. John Updike (b. 1932), U.S. author, critic
Never dance in a puddle when there’s a hole in your shoe (it’s always best to take your shoes off first). John D. Rhodes
We are made of earth and rain
Rain is grace
All rejection and negation indicates a deficiency in fertility: fundamentally, if only we were good plowland we would allow nothing to go unused, and in every thing, event, and person we would welcome manure, rain, or sunshine. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. The dearest events are summer-rain, and we the Para coats that shed every drop. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Painting rainThe rain fell like dead bullets. Scott NicholsonHe turned to look just in time to see the rain start falling out as if the storm had finally decided to weep with shame for what it had done to them. James DashnerMade of earth and rain
