5 Beautiful Quotes on Life by Korean Writers

Min Jin Lee
 

“One of the nice things about getting older is that you come to understand that you can integrate multiple aspects of your life together. When you’re young, you think everything has to be binary, as that’s exactly how you feel at that age.” 

 Kim Hyesoon

 

“Women who have been disappeared by violence are howling. The voices of disappeared women are echoing. I sing with these voices.” 

Chan Ho Park
 

“This is normal, to have pressure. It’s how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.” 

Kim Hyesoon

 

“Since the boundary of the world of poetry is fluid, the language in it is also fluid. Hence, the language that is outside of the poetry world, namely the language that is not the language of poetry, cannot go into the poetry world.” 
 

Yi Mun-yol

 

“The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow.”