“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”

Source: Dracula

Source: The Lords and The New Creatures

Source: The Price of Salt

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Fahrenheit 451

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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)

Source: Kim Cheng Boey, Between Stations: Essays (2009), p. 102
Context: Spring Night, Delighting in Rain (A translation by Burton Watson)

The good rain knows when to fall,
stirring new growth the moment spring arrives.

Wind-borne, it steals softly into the night,
nourishing, enriching, delicate, and soundless.

Country paths black as the clouds above them;
on a river boat a lone torch flares.

Come dawn we'll see a landscape moist and pink,
blossoms heavy over the City of Brocade.

Source: Of Human Bondage (1915), Ch. 106