when the cold rains kept on

“You expected to be sad in the fall.

Part of you dies each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.”

Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961 

Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954