Do you think it's right to not say goodbye to the man you yourself said was on the very first page of your very first volume of your diary? This is t… - Yasunari Kawabata

And then you may think of it as promiscuous, but the girl herself is asleep, and doesn’t even know who she has slept with. The girl the other time and the girl tonight will never know a thing about you, and to speak of promiscuousness is a little…

But love flowed into the apology, to coddle and mollify the guilt.

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.