Tears Are Summer Showers

I am fortunate enough not to remember the last time I cried, but then again, reading this phrase by Austin, I see there is something liberating about shedding tears; something that doesn't rob us of dignity, but actually adds to it. And my mind casts back to the tears I have seen in others, and I can see the good it did to them.


Alberico Collina



“Tears are summer showers to the soul.” Alfred Austin, in Savonarola (1881)