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“The evening sky was streaked with purple, the color of torn plums, and a light rain had started to fall when I came to the end of the blacktop road that cut through twenty miles of thick, almost impenetrable scrub oak and pine and stopped at the front gate of Angola penitentiary.”

Ends Light Fall Cutting Sky Fronts Color Rain Twenties Miles Evening Gates Thick Torn Purple Oaks Plums Evening Sky Angola

Author:James Lee

“Now as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky With all their ancient faces like rain- beaten stones, And all their helms of silver hovering.”

Mind I Can Eye Faces Sky Clothes Rain Stones Blue Depth Ancient Disappear All Time Silver Pale Beaten Unsatisfied Hovering Helm

Book:Later Poems

Source: Later Poems

“Put forth thy leaf, thou lofty plane, East wind and frost are safely gone; With zephyr mild and balmy rain The summer comes serenely on; Earth, air, and sun and skies combine To promise all that's kind and fair: But thou, O human heart of mine, Be still, contain thyself, and bear.”

Humans Heart Kind Stills Earth Sun Gone Air Sky Mines Wind Bears Promise Summer Rain Fairs East Planes Leafs Human Heart Thyself Lofty Frost Zephyr

Book:Poems: With a Memoir

Source: Poems: With a Memoir

“Thou slanting rain! Thou Hebe of the Skies, That pours out drink to Earth; thou faithful wife That with moist tears embraces her prone lord. Thou mist intensified; thou double dew That drowns the drought, that heals the parched and burnt -- Thou resurrection rain.”

Earth Lord Wife Sky Tears Drink Rain Embrace Heal Faithful Resurrection Mist Dew Drought Faithful Wife

Book:Cloudrifts at Twilight

Source: Cloudrifts at Twilight

“Rain is disagreeable, but snow is as much part of the mountain as are sunshine and clear skies.”

Clear Sky Mountain Rain Snow Sunshine Disagreeable Clear Skies

Author:Gaston Rebuffat

“The mighty Rain Holds the vast empire of the sky alone.”

Sky Rain Empires

Author:William C. Bryant

“Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain.”

Soul Fate Sky Wind Return Rain Clouds Landscape

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.”

Sky Flower Bird Rain Showers Mourn

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?”

Men Should Grief Sky Tears Eternal Rain Shame Mortals

Book:The Last Man

Source: The Last Man

“Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.”

“The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!”

Earth Lying Sea Sky Lows Rain Drinking Heavy Usual Drains Dense Surplus

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“The rains tumble down in the sky, Young swallows have learned how to fly, The leaves that were green are no longer so green, And it looks like the summer is over.”

Looks Young Sky Summer Rain Green Summer Is Over

Author:Tom Springfield

“The Louvre! The Louvre has me in its clutches. Every time I'm there rich blessings rain down upon me. I am coming to understand Titian more and more and learning to love him. And then there is Botticelli's sweet Madonna, with red roses behind her, standing against a blue-green sky. And Fiesole with his poignant little biblical stories, so simply told, often so glorious in their colors.”

Source: Paula Modersohn-Becker, the Letters and Journals

“a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.”

Heart May Sometimes Moments Fall Sky Rain Casts Sunshine Tall Unlikely Misty Ambivalence

Book:Lamb in His Bosom

Source: Lamb in His Bosom

“Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be choked with sewage. Acid rain would pour down from smog-filled skies. Hundreds of thousands more of our neighbors, friends, and loved ones would be victims of cancer, heart disease, and asthma.”

“Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.”

Looks Stills War Light Darkness Sun Sky Military Rain Blue Shining Clouds Warmth Bows Sunlight Blue Sky Darkness To Light

Book:Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

Source: Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition

“The way to develop the habit of savoring is to pause when something is beautiful and good and catches our attention - the sound of rain, the look of the night sky - the glow in a child's eyes, or when we witness some kindness. Pause... then totally immerse in the experience of savoring it.”

Way Looks Children Eye Beautiful Night Sound Attention Kindness Sky Habit Rain Witness Pauses Night Sky Savoring Sound Of Rain

Author:Tara Brach

“Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made of an infinite array of hands and crests that reveal anonymous faces. On a good day, the clouds part to alight on-lo and behold-an island! I step ashore, only find that it too is made of people, mangled bodies somehow still alive. They grab at my feet, pulling me under like quicksand. The last thing I see before suffocating is the sky, a billion eyes staring down, blinking in undulating electric ripples. The cold rain I feel on my cheeks is the tears of the people.”

“Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?”

“We have seen that the Son of God created the world for this very end, to communicate Himself in an image of His own excellency. ... When we behold the light and brightness of the sun, the golden edges of an evening cloud, or the beauteous (rain)bow, we behold the adumbrations of His glory and goodness; and in the blue sky, of his mildness and gentleness.”

World Ends Light Sun Sky Creation Son Goodness Glory Rain Blue Clouds Edges Communicate Golden Evening Bows Gentleness Brightness Blue Sky Mildness

Author:Jonathan Edwards

“Marriage is the union of two divinities that a third might be born on earth. It is the union of two souls in a strong love for the abolishment of separateness. It is that higher unity which fuses the separate unities within the two spirits. It is the golden ring in a chain whose beginning is a glance, and whose ending is Eternity. It is the pure rain that falls from an unblemished sky to fructify and bless the fields of divine Nature.”

“Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks raining from the sky, lava floes destroying entire villages, etc., and the teenager, eyebrows arched with sarcasm, will look at you and say, "Gee, this is swell," then return to the rental car, turn on his portable CD player, and listen to a band called Stomach Contents.”

“Raindrops are beating, a large puddle is forming, there on the balcony. It all floats in Emptiness, in purest Transparency, with no one here to watch it. If there is an I, it is all that is arising, right now and right now and right now. My lungs are the sky; those mountains are my teeth; the clouds are my skin; the thunder is my heart beating time to the timeless; the rain itself, the tears of our collective estate, here where nothing is really happening.”

Source: One Taste

“When there are no clouds in the sky, under the beautiful sunshine, remember the rain and repair your umbrella!”

Beautiful Remember Sky Rain Clouds Sunshine Umbrella

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.”

Bigs Eye Sun Tree Sky Rain Window Blue Shining Blank Blue Eyes

Author:Al Jarreau

“And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.”

World Light Earth Sun Rich Sky Lessons Rain Vines

Book:Summer Morning, Summer Night

Source: Summer Morning, Summer Night

“Be praised for all Your tenderness by these works of Your hands, suns that rise and rains that fall to bless and bring to life Your land. Look down upon this winter wheat and be glad that You have made blue for the sky and the color green that fills Your fields with praise.”

Looks Made Hands Fall Sun Sky Land Fields Color Rain Praise Blue Green Winter Glad Bless Tenderness Wheat

Author:Rich Mullins

“The substance of mind is the substance of heaven. A joyful thought is an auspicious star or a felicitous cloud. An angry thought is a thunderstorm or a violent rain. A kind thought is a gentle breeze or a sweet dew. A stern thought is a fierce sun or an autumn frost. Which of these can be eliminated? Just let them pass away as they arise, open and unresisting, and your mind merges with the spacious sky.”

Mind Kind Heaven Stars Sun Sky Sweet Rain Angry Clouds Violent Arise Substance Gentle Taoism Autumn Fierce Joyful Breeze Dew Passing Away Frost Thunderstorm Kind Thoughts

Author:Zicheng Hong

“I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the architecture was wonderful. I would only go because the people are kind, and in America, everybody's your friend and happiness rains down from the sky.”

People Kind America Beautiful Wonderful Sky Rain Architecture Weather Scenery

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice.”

Body Action Form Sky Rain Died Clouds Karma Snow Ice Continuation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity.”

Knows Use Language Sky Identity Speech Rain Ghost Ireland English Language Rainy Day Ireland And The Irish Gaelic

Author:John McGahern

“Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.”

“Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.”

“Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.”

Dream Father Sky Rain Dance Our Dreams Jungle Our Father Concrete Jungle

Author:Arna Bontemps

“There was the blue sky above her and all those many roses, the ones that gave off the scent of cloves in the rain and the ones that left a trace of lemon on your fingers, the ones that were the color of blood, and those that were as white as clouds. Each one was sweeter than the next and as red as gemstones.”

Next Left White Blood Sky Color Red Rain Blue Rose Fingers Clouds Scent Lemons Blue Sky

Book:The River King

Source: The River King

“To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.”

Matter Fall Silence Darkness Sky Quiet Rain Noise Dust Preserves Grain Parades Fertile Tramps

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant Southern sun, Queen Susan, the Gentle; and to the clear Northern sky I give you King Peter, the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us 'til the stars rain down from the heavens.”

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”

“And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.”

Grows Walks Watches Sky Tomorrow Ocean Rain Garden Boat Wet Sailing Getting High Ferry

Author:Van Morrison

“Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!”

Wells May Done Lasts Fall Behinds Break Journey Sky Wind Bed Mountain Waste Rain Blow Woods Halls Tall Dread Toil Foe Haste Misty Errands Moors Sped

Book:The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

Source: The Lord of the Rings: One Volume

“If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?”

Ifs Life Heart Two Able Earth Together Sky Rain Eternity Bleach Two Hearts

Author:Tite Kubo

“The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by”

Sky Land Wind Kings Rain Shallow Ravens

Author:Susanna Clarke

“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.”

Knows Wanted Water Sky Rain Clouds Miserable Holiday Cherish Succession

Book:So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.”

Ideas Use Three Half Progress Sky Rain Idiot Snakes Qualified Wizards Downtown Atlanta Havoc Summoning Ammo

Author:Ilona Andrews

“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”

Years Hands Night Dies Stars Born Hours Millions Sun Forever Week Sky Minutes Months Moon Rain Empty Notes Clouds Circles Scales Snow Clock Fades Swings Reborn Second Hand Sun Rise Revolving Rain And Snow

Book:Prelude

Source: Prelude

“when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.”

Ifs Humans Hard Moments Eye Film Millions Air Sky Tears Elements Concepts Rain Denial Lifts Colour Climbing Dirt Grey Grit Sinking Impurity Human Eyes Paisley

Book:Money

Source: Money

“We live in a world full of accidents finally in which on aesthetic principles have a consistency of which we can be sure. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever striving to create and maintain an ethical balance. Right and wrong we will struggle with forever, striving to create and maintain an ethical balance; but the shimmer of summer rain under the street lamps or the great flashing glare of artillery against a night sky – such brutal beauty is beyond dispute.”

Source: The Queen of the Damned

“A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.”

“I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; thanks to your love a certain solid fragrence risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body. and: No one can stop the river of your hands, your eyes and their sleepiness, my dearest. You are the trembling of time, which passes between the vertical light and the darkening sky. and: From the stormy archipelagoes I brought my windy accordian, waves of crazy rain, the habitual slowness of natural things: they made up my wild heart.”

“I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.”

Has Beens Stills Light Eye Night House Sound Cities Feet Sky Streets Cry Beats Rain Clock Call Me Far Away Unwilling Lanes Bye Interrupted Good Bye Saddest Saying Good Bye City Lights

Author:Robert Frost