Ko Un

Ko Un (born 1 August 1933) is a South Korean poet.

Quotes
seen as I went down —as I was coming up I couldn't see it
 * That flower
 * Flowers of a Moment (2006), p. 46

Quotes about Ko Un

 * 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