Quotes About Yasunari Kawabata

And the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth. There was a quiet, chilly loneliness in it, and a sort of voluptuous astonishment.

Your ears are lovely, he said, but there's a kind of eerie beauty to your profile.

Hay por aquí algún demonio intentando reírse de mi?

I couldn't explain philosophy myself, and I doubt you could, either. Although it's ...' Her mother paused. 'I suppose it involves feeling something, and then using that feeling as a starting point for a train of thought. The feeling itself may be naïve, a lingering sense of wonder at something most people take for granted but you hold on to it, and think it through as far as you can. Does that sound right?

Un demonio vendrá a buscarte -dijo, arrimándose a la notable piel de la muchacha.

He went to the house, he said, when the despair of old age was too much for him.