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Ko Un is a South Korean poet whose works have been translated and published in more than fifteen countries. He had been imprisoned many times due to his role in the campaign for Korean democracy. Ko is routinely mentioned in Korea as one of the front runners for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Ko Un Quotes

“Body and soul, let's all go / transformed into arrows! / Piercing the air / body and soul, let's go / with no turning back.”

Ko Un
Soul

“That flower
seen as I went down—
as I was coming up
I couldn't see it”

Ko Un

Flowers of a Moment (2006), p. 46

Flowers

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