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Jack Kerouac Quotes about Rain

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My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

Jack Kerouac
Rain, Shoes, Clean
Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.8, Penguin

The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

Jack Kerouac
Rain, Taste
Jack Kerouac (1995). “Book of Blues”, p.78, Penguin

And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?

Jack Kerouac
Rain, Dark, Night
Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

beautiful insane in the rain

Jack Kerouac
Beautiful, Rain, Insane
Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.36, Grove Press

When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.

Jack Kerouac
Rain, Echoes, Wind
Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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