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title: "2 Abandonment Quotes By Kim Hyesoon"
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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/mother-is-a-synonym-for-abandonment-and-death-comparing-this-synonym/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

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> [There is a specific kind of day when I feel like writing poems. My senses become really sharp. This day is when I feel as if I am drowning into the abandonment of death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/there-is-a-specific-kind-of-day-when-i-feel-like-writing-poems-my/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

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## Other authors on Abandonment

- [Craig D. Lounsbrough 8 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abandonment/craig-d-lounsbrough/)

## More by Kim Hyesoon

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/mother-is-a-synonym-for-abandonment-and-death-comparing-this-synonym/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [Alienation between the content and form happens frequently in my poems because I obstinately carry on dismantling my body, an act you can also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/alienation-between-the-content-and-form-happens-frequently-in-my/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [Once, I compared poetry to mothers in my book called To Write as a Woman, because my mother is someone who captures me in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/once-i-compared-poetry-to-mothers-in-my-book-called-to-write-as-a/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [Korean feminism is on the brink of death. Korea has a less clear boundary between popular literature and serious literature than in other countries.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/korean-feminism-is-on-the-brink-of-death-korea-has-a-less-clear/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [We have certain rules for traditional lyric poetry in Korea. I twist my body, confused by what to say and how to act, facing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/we-have-certain-rules-for-traditional-lyric-poetry-in-korea-i-twist/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [Men think women should do trivial things on the margins. They think women should be merely a seasoning for a dish. I feel anger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/men-think-women-should-do-trivial-things-on-the-margins-they-think/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [In Korea, a woman must first obey her father, then her husband when she becomes an ajuma, and finally obey her son as a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/in-korea-a-woman-must-first-obey-her-father-then-her-husband-when-she/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [Women are foils to men in South Korea. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/women-are-foils-to-men-in-south-korea-it-is-hard-for-women-to-take-a/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [When I became a poet, the Korean literary world expected women poets to sing passively of love. Naturally, this was not written anywhere, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/when-i-became-a-poet-the-korean-literary-world-expected-women-poets/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [When anger and sorrow overflow, sometimes it becomes poetry.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/when-anger-and-sorrow-overflow-sometimes-it-becomes-poetry/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/south-korea-is-one-of-the-worst-countries-when-it-comes-to/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images I use…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/the-grotesque-in-my-poems-is-the-motion-i-use-to-put-myself-and-the/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [You cannot call a poem female just because it is written by a woman. Nevertheless, I think attempts to find femininity in female bodies,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/you-cannot-call-a-poem-female-just-because-it-is-written-by-a-woman/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/poems-are-a-dance-of-language-that-comes-out-when-my-body-taps-into/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

> [Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-hyesoon/living-in-korea-as-a-girl-meant-living-under-a-lot-of-discrimination/)

[Kim Hyesoon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-hyesoon/)

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