Poems are ways of saying you clearly remember the day of your death and your tomb. When I am writing poetry, I relive my days when a woman inside me dies many times.

The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.

Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger and sorrow seeing this.

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

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

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.

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

Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in.

If you propose there is a feminism problem in Korea, somebody would point out that you are bringing up antiquated issues. No one acknowledges that discrimination against women is still widespread.

I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.

When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.

Open all closed minds with the key to understanding.

Religion is like wax. How anyone deals with it is decisive for how it will look like.

Every relationship can feel saturated by market logic or at best purchased at the price of the immiseration of others.

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

Stop Learning and start thinking.

We normally know Jesus as a humble, loving servant, which He is. But Revelations gives us the bigger picture of who Jesus is, in His glory.

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

Boredom is the effort used in suppressing something negative.

My greatest inspiration had come from messages delivered through spirit sources, who seemed to guide my every step.