Yasunari Kawabata Quotes About Mountain

Quotes about: Mountain

• In the depths of the mirror the evening landscape moved by, the mirror and the reflected figures like motion pictures superimposed one on the other. The figures and the background were unrelated, and yet the figures, transparent and intangible, and the background, dim in the gathering darkness, melted into a sort of symbolic world not of this world. Particularly when a light out in the mountains shone in the center of the girl's face, Shimamura felt his chest rise at the inexpressible beauty of it.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Girl, Mirrors, Light

  "Snow Country". Book by Yasunari Kawabata, 1948.

• Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant clap of thunder.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Sea, Mountain, Roaring

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.159, Vintage

• The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Snow, Mountain, Ifs

  Yasunari Kawabata (2013). “Snow Country”, p.66, Vintage

• The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in the mountain hall, is engaged in a delicate interplay and exchange with the moon; and it is this of which the poet sings.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Philosophy, Heart, Winter

  "Japan, the Beautiful and Myself". Yasunari Kawabata's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 12, 1968.

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