But for your Terror
Where would be Valour?
What is Love for
But to stand in your way?
Take and Giver,
For all your endeavour
You leave us with more
Than you touch with decay.
“For me there’s always been big overlap between fiction and song. My style as a novelist comes substantially from what I learnt writing songs. The intimate, first-person quality of a singer performing to an audience, for instance, carried over for me into novels. As did the need to approach meaning subtly, sometimes by nudging it into the spaces between the lines.”
Kazuo Ishiguro