“Yet how strange a thing is the beauty of music! The brief beauty that the player brings into being transforms a given period of time into pure continuance; it is certain never to be repeated; like the existence of day flies and other such short-lived creatures, beauty is a perfect abstraction and creation of life itself. Nothing is so similar to life as music.”
Yukio Mishima
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Yukio Mishima in New York. Photograph: Carlo Bavagnoli. Life magazine, 1964