Top 25 Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata of 32 - Page 2

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

Yasunari Kawabata

Sea, Mountain, Roaring

Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.159, Vintage

A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Yasunari Kawabata

Dog, Cancer, Night

Yasunari Kawabata (2017). “House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories”, p.12, Vintage

THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.

Yasunari Kawabata

Country, Tunnels, Long

Yasunari Kawabata (1969). “Snow Country and Thousand Cranes”

The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

Yasunari Kawabata

Philosophy, Heart, Winter

"Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

Even if you have the wit to look by yourself in a bush away from the other children, there are not many bell crickets in the world. Probably you will find a girl like a grasshopper whom you think is a bell cricket.And finally, to your clouded, wounded heart, even a true bell cricket will seem like a grasshopper. Should that day come, when it seems to you that the world is only full of grasshoppers, I will think it a pity that you have no way to remember tonight's play of light, when your name was written in green by your beautiful lantern on a girl's breast.

Yasunari Kawabata

Beautiful, Girl, Children

But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

Yasunari Kawabata

Determination, Rain, Voice

Yasunari Kawabata, Rudyard Kipling, Sinclair Lewis (1971). “Nobel Prize Library”