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Kim Hyesoon Quotes

Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons Picture Quote #1

Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us Picture Quote #1

Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to me out of her desire but washed her hands of me after giving birth to me as a poet Picture Quote #1

Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes our selves completely Picture Quote #1

I have to reach the poetry condition to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead Picture Quote #1

Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body Picture Quote #1

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Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify Picture Quote #1

You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies, life, and thinking, attempts to find a way for women to speak, will improve widely in Korea Picture Quote #1

Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call dismantling delusion. I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems Picture Quote #1

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Women in Korean myths disappear after giving birth. The reason they were born is to produce sons. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes) Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes) Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in her body and gave birth to me out of her desire but washed her hands of me after giving birth to me as a poet. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes) Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes our selves completely. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes) I have to reach the poetry condition to write. Then it is as if the border around me is thinned or blurred or erased or disappeared or dead. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes) Our mothers who have gone are buried in our bodies. It can be said that we were born with dead mothers in our body. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes) Mother is a synonym for abandonment and death. Comparing this synonym to water, it is like poured-out water. I call it mother, the identity that I cannot identify. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes) You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies, life, and thinking, attempts to find a way for women to speak, will improve widely in Korea. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes) Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also call dismantling delusion. I think that after I dismantle my female body, I can finally dismantle established lyric poems. (Kim Hyesoon Quotes)