Yasunari Kawabata

Cosmic time is the same for everyone, but human time differs with each person. Time flows in the same way for all human beings; every human being flows through time in a different way. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#beauty

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#moonlight #night-sky #men

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

#sleeping-beauty #beauty

I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#retirement #writing #age

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. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#beauty

The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire, and when? ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#inspirational

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#words #writiting #love

¿Pero cuánto durará esta belleza? A las mujeres nos entristece pensar en eso ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#beauty

From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#games #go #japan #orient #beauty

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. ↗

— Yasunari Kawabata

#development #japan #japanese-literature #love #love