“The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain…”
Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995) English musician, artist and author
opening of side 2)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
Source: Soul Music
“The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain…”
Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995) English musician, artist and author
opening of side 2)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
“Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”
John Updike (1932–2009) American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic
Source: Self-Consciousness : Memoirs (1989), Ch. 1
“In the mountains a night of rain,
And above the trees a hundred springs.”
Wang Wei (699–759) a Tang dynasty Chinese poet, musician, painter, and statesman
As quoted in Lin Yutang's My Country and My People (1936), p. 247
“If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.”
Ikkyu (1394–1481) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in The Essence of Zen : Zen Buddhism for Every Day and Every Moment (2002) by Mark Levon Byrne, p. 28.
Context: From the world of passions returning to the world of passions:
There is a moment's pause.
If it rains, let it rain, if the wind blows, let it blow.
“Red rain is coming down.
Red rain.
Red rain is pouring down,
Pouring down all over me.”
Peter Gabriel (1950) English singer-songwriter, record producer and humanitarian
Red Rain
Song lyrics, So (1986)
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
“Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain?”
Jessica Dubroff (1988–1996) American child pilot trainee
http://www.skygod.com/quotes/lastwords.html