“In a drizzling rain,
In a flower shop’s doorway,
A girl sells herself”

— Richard Wright

Haiku: This Other World (1998)

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Richard Wright 130

African-American writer 1908–1960

Hans Christian von Baeyer (1938) American physicist

Source: Information, The New Language of Science (2003), Chapter 1, Electric Rain, Information in our lives, p. 3

“Love is like the rain. It comes in a drizzle sometimes. Then it starts pouring and if you're not careful it will drown you.”

Edwidge Danticat book Breath, Eyes, Memory

Writings
Source: Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”

John Green book Looking for Alaska

Source: Looking for Alaska

“Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers”

Avner Strauss (1954) Israeli musician

Context: Rain was the nemesis of the snow, and the snow for the flowers. I Answer as if Someone Really Meant to Ask, Birds of the Mind and Chameleons of the Heart (1978).

“The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.”

Daniel Handler book Adverbs

Adverbs (2006), Frigidly

“A flower can't grow without rain. (Alexion)
Too much rain and it drowns. (Danger)
And yet the most beautiful of the lotus flowers are the ones that grow in the deepest mud. (Alexion)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.”

Virginia Woolf book Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway (1925)
Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“It's not too near for me
Like a flower I need the rain”

Sophie B. Hawkins (1967) American musician

Whaler (1994), As I Lay Me Down
Context: It's not too near for me
Like a flower I need the rain
Though it's not clear to me
Every season has its change
And I will see you
When the sun comes out again.