Quotes About Murasaki

Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry.

i wish you could understand me, but of course it is not the way of this world that we are ever completely understood.

And among the leaves were white flowers with petals half-unfolded like the lips of people smiling at their own thoughts.

Her shock and dismay at his forward behaviour gave her an allure he found irresistibly attractive.

Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...

Would that, like the smoke of the watch-fires that mounts and vanishes at random in the empty sky, the smouldering flame of passion could burn itself away