There is no rain
That falls sideways of itself.
'Tis only the wind that beats
Against the window at midnight.
-St, Rissho
Each storm has, like a navel,
a hole in its middle through which a gull cam fly in silence.
-Anonymous, Fourteenth Century Japan
You must rise about the gloomy clouds.
-Ryokan Taigu
A heavy downpour of rain.
Stand and face the rain,
let its steel rays pierce you,
float in the water that waits to carry you with it,
but hold fast all the same,
just stand up straight and wait
for the sudden and endless shining of the sun.
-Franz Kafka
