Yukio Mishima Quote

Literary art takes its materials from life, but although life is thus the mother of literature, it is also her bitter enemy; although life is inherent in the author himself, it is also the eternal antithesis of art.


Mishima on Hagakure (1977)


Literary art takes its materials from life, but although life is thus the mother of literature, it is also her bitter enemy; although life is...

Literary art takes its materials from life, but although life is thus the mother of literature, it is also her bitter enemy; although life is...

Literary art takes its materials from life, but although life is thus the mother of literature, it is also her bitter enemy; although life is...

Literary art takes its materials from life, but although life is thus the mother of literature, it is also her bitter enemy; although life is...