More Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.
Now, even more than the evening before, he could think of no one with whom to compare her. She had become absolute, beyond comparison. She had become decision and fate.
Seeing the moon, he becomes the moon, the moon seen by him becomes him. He sinks into nature, becomes one with nature. The light of the "clear heart" of the priest, seated in the meditation hall in the darkness before the dawn, becomes for the dawn moon its own light.
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words.
The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when?
They were words that came out of nothing, but they seemed to him somehow significant. He muttered them over again.
From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.
Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.
