“In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?”
Source: The Book of Questions
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Pablo Neruda136
Chilean poet 1904–1973Related quotes
“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.”
Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
“As the rain falls
so does
your love
bathe every
open
object of the world”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
Bruce Springsteen (1949) American singer and songwriter
"My City of Ruins"
Song lyrics, The Rising (2002)
“Art is the language of the tormented, but the world is blind to that, for ever blind.”
Steven Erikson book Forge of Darkness
Forge of Darkness (2013)
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“The rain
Never falls upwards.
When the wound
Stops hurting
What hurts is
The scar.”
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German poet, playwright, theatre director
"Poems Belonging to a Reader for Those who Live in Cities" [Zum Lesebuch für Städtebewohner gehörige Gedichte] (1926-1927), poem 10, trans. Frank Jones in Poems, 1913-1956, p. 148
Poems, 1913-1956 (1976)
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Source: The Great Gatsby