Quotations About / On: RAIN

  • 41.
    Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
    Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
    (Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), U.S. poet. Love is not all; it is not meat nor drink. (L. 1-2). . ; pseud. "Nancy Boyd" Collected Poems [Edna St. Vincent Millay]. Norma Millay, ed. (1956) Harper and Row.)
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  • 42.
    The noise of life begins again,
    And ghastly through the drizzling rain
    On the bald street breaks the blank day.
    (Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. In Memoriam A. H. H. (Fr. VII, l. 10-12). . . Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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  • 43.
    The flowers are ravined
    by bees, the fruit blossoms

    are thrown to the ground, the wind
    the rain forces everything.
    (Charles Olson (1910-1970), U.S. poet. Variations Done for Gerald Van de Wiele (l. 74-77). . . Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 44.
    The property of rain is to wet and fire to burn.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Corin, in As You Like It, act 3, sc. 2, l. 26-7. The shepherd's common sense.)
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  • 45.
    There is not even silence in the mountains
    But dry sterile thunder without rain
    There is not even solitude in the mountains
    (T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 341-343). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 46.
    An old, mad man still climbing in his ghost,
    My fathers' ghost is climbing in the rain.
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "I fellowed sleep.")
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  • 47.
    Out alone in the winter rain,
    Intent on giving and taking pain.
    (Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "The Thatch.")
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  • 48.
    Dawn-sniffing revenant,
    Plodder through midnight rain,
    Question me again.
    (Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Casualty (l. 110-112). . . Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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  • 49.
    Each month
    the blood sheets down
    like good red rain.
    (Erica Jong (b. 1942), U.S. author. "Gardener," Half Lives (1973).)
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  • 50.
    A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.
    (Ray Evans (b. 1915), U.S. songwriter. "To Each His Own," To Each His Own, Paramount Music Corp. (1946). Music composed by Jay Livingston (b. 1915).)
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