90 Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata

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.

The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks.

Even if you took it as cascading snowy mountains,it was not a cool snow-white. The cold of the snow and it's warm colour made a kind of music.

国境の長いトンネルを抜けると雪国であった。夜の底が白くなった。信号所に汽車が止まった。

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.

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

A voice so beautiful it was almost lonely, calling out as if to someone who could not hear, on ship far away.

Los viejos tienen la muerte, y los jóvenes el amor, y la muerte viene una sola vez y el amor muchas.

The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono and tucked it into her obi. The moon shone like a blade frozen in blue ice.