Yasunari Kawabata Quotes

People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. and Nature has been defeated in the name of development.

No, it didn't hurt. He didn't want to lose any black hair, and he was careful to pull out the white hairs one by one. But when he had finished, the skin was drawn and shriveled. It hurt when you ran y...

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Yasunari/Kōsei Kawabata (川端 康成, Kawabata Yasunari/Kōsei; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.wa.ba.ta (|) ja.sɯꜜ.na.ɾʲi, -koꜜː.sei, -seː], 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award. His works have enjoyed broad international appeal and are still widely read.

Because you cannot see him God is everywhere.

Yet the misty spring rain softened the outline of the mountain across the river and made it even more beautiful. So gentle was the rain that they hardly knew they were getting wet as they strolled bac...

Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...