„It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.“

— Sylvia Plath
„it never rains but it pours.“
— Bram Stoker
„I will write the evangel-poem of comrades and of love.“
— Walt Whitman
„He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.“
— Mary Oliver
„And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to defy it.“
— Bob Dylan
„Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?"“
— Ernest Hemingway