"Put your soul in the palm of my……" — Yasunari Kawabata
"Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words..."
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26 Quotes by Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata has 26 quotes on this site.
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A child walked by, rolling a metal hoop that made a sound of autumn.
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The labor into which a heart has poured its whole love--where will it have its say, to excite and inspire,…
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And I can't complain. After all, only woemn are able really to love
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Along the coast the sea roars, and inland the mountains roar – the roaring at the center, like a distant…
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The snow on the distant mountains was soft and creamy, as if veiled in a faint smoke.
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THE TRAIN came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.
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The winter moon becomes a companion, the heart of the priest, sunk in meditation upon religion and philosophy, there in…
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A secret, if it's kept, can be sweet and comforting, but once it leaks out it can turn on you…
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The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no…
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Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.
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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was…
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The road was frozen. The village lay quiet under the cold sky. Komako hitched up the skirt of her kimono…
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More Crystal Quotes
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one of 303 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think…
— Margaret Atwood
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
— Diane Ackerman
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and…
— Teresa of Avila
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In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of…
— Teresa of Avila
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That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply…
— John Berger
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better,…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
— Robert Browning
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Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern,…
— T.A. Barron
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...We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. That sounds goody two-shoes, I know, but I believe…
— Maya Angelou
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Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble…
— James Joyce
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Life is fragile, like the dew hanging delicately on the grass, crystal drops that will be carried away on the…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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I can teach anybody how to get, what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find…
— Mark Twain
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