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.

In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.

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

Speaking as an outsider is the most authentic voice for a poet. Poets who have one hundred thousand or one million readers [as many South Korean poets do] might not be a real, authentic poet.

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but this rule existed nonetheless. Consequently, I received plenty of serious criticism.