Ko Un
Korean poet
Ko Un (born 1 August 1933) is a South Korean poet.
seen as I went down
—as I was coming up
I couldn't see it
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Quotes
edit- That flower
seen as I went down
—as I was coming up
I couldn't see it- Flowers of a Moment (2006), p. 46
Quotes about Ko Un
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- Ko Un hugged all the germs of Korean society with his entire body, and contracted its diseases. He threw his body into the wilderness of Korea's past and dreamed of a new Korea, another future.
- Kim Seung-Hee, The Korea Times, 14 October 2005, as partially quoted in Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry (Copper Canyon Press, 2008) by Dennis O'Driscoll, p. 204, and in full in Encyclopedia.com
