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Every storm runs out of rain.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Four words that promise the bad stretch is finite. It works because it is weather talk, plain enough for a card, a funeral or a tattoo, and it borrows the authority of a woman who survived a great deal. Its afterlife is mostly images and social posts, which is how a country-song hook ended up fixed to a poet's name.
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Nobody has found a book, speech or interview in which Maya Angelou coined this line. The words are the title and hook of a country song, "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)", written by Gary Allan, Hillary Lindsey and Matt Warren and released in September 2012 as the lead single from Allan's album Set You Free. The saying then circulated under Angelou's name, and the site's attribution note dates a post on her Twitter account to April 2013. So it reads best as a line she shared and made famous, not one she wrote.
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- Wikipedia: Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)Infobox: songwriters, releaseReference checked
- Wikiquote: Maya AngelouPage searched for the lineReference checked
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