“Just as a good rain clears the air, a good writing day clears the psyche.”
Julia Cameron (1948) American writer
Source: The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader—not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.”
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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,
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Wind-borne, it steals softly into the night,
nourishing, enriching, delicate, and soundless.
Country paths black as the clouds above them;
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Come dawn we'll see a landscape moist and pink,
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