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metamorphesque · 2 years

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— Hope is Lonely, Kim Seung Hee (tr. Brother Anthony)

[text ID: hope and I, / hope is a life sentence, / hope is lonely.]

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kitchen-light · 2 years

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There was a woman who worshipped the sun. A poet who worshipped not the moon shaded by the sun’s rays, but the sun itself, radiating the most blistering heat and glow. A poet who gave herself to the temple of that sun. That poet is Kim Seung-hee, who announced that she would “never reconcile with realism” (“Siin-ui yeonghon”; The soul of the poet), who grappled fiercely with the reality women face. This poet who “dared to imagine” her “flame on an eternal orbit / returning to the sun / Always, and evermore” (“Taeyang misa”; Mass for the sun) is now already in her seventies. After fifty years of a celebrated career, in which she published eleven volumes of poetry, including her latest astonishing collection Danmujiwa beikeon-ui jinsilhan saram (Changbi, 2021; The truthful human of pickled radish and bacon), she still leads the audience to look forward to what might come after this book.

Lee Kyungsoo, from “[Essay] From the Priestess of the Sun to the Poet of the Earth”, published in Korean Lit Now, June 14, 2022 (translated by Emily Jungmin Yoon)

#lee kyungsoo #kim seung hee #quotes #essays #words #found*#on poetry

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generouswindow · 2 years

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Hope is Lonely

by KIM SEUNG HEE Translation from the Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé

People often say that despair is lonely but I reckon that hope is even lonelier. Despair might be termed the peace of gravity. For a pig to become bacon all it has to do is relax and subside into a pool of blood . . . and still its head is grinning pink. Despair has a similar warmth of sorrow.

Hope sometimes provides first aid but there may sometimes be people who dislike hope’s first aid, maybe. Reckoning that despair offers more comfort, following a bright ray of sunlight trembling in the breeze, you came from afar to obtain medicine but being already convinced that the medicine has no effect your sickness grew worse.

The cactus – hope’s totem pole . . .

Even on a night when all the words flew away from the dictionary, even at that moment like blue lightning standing quietly before a chair after taking off my shoes, the word hope barely managed to remain and because of that one word, I cannot discard everything. The word hope prevents the world’s ruins from being completed. Beating my breast and asking why I don’t let the ruins continue, rather because of that hope there are frighteningly lonelier times.

The cactus – hope’s totem pole . . . it’s an order to love still, more, fully, until blood flows freely

Though I want to escape, put an end to it, that bright sunlight being shared out for no reason, such a waste, like blood spreading in water . . . hope and I, hope is a life sentence. Hope is lonely.

#of living #of ruin #kim seung hee #The art of losing

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tini21 · 2 years

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hope and i,

hope is a life sentence,

hope is lonely.

- Kim Seung Hee

translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé

#kim seung hee #brother anthony of taize #snapshots and borrowed thoughts #photographers on tumblr #olloclip

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365filmsbyauroranocte · 4 months

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In Our Day (Hong Sang-soo, 2023)

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naksushadows · 8 months

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Moving posters are so powerful and cool ✨️

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mirambles · 7 months

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Moving

Moving went from:

A high school drama

to superheroes

to spy thriller

to bromance

to slow burn romance

to Kill Bill level action gore

to slice of life showing the most heartwarming moments between the adults and kids,

to the ultimate enemy stand-off,

to tragic backstories of the so called villains,

to found family

to much needed family reunions!

Moving aced all genres and emotions!

Moving has reshuffled my entire all time favourite Kdrama list - Kingdom stays at the Top, Moving comes second, followed by Hot Stove League and Reply 1988.

I have so much to write , so much to unpack - I’m rewatching it and will keep posting my thoughts!

I so love this drama and every single member of the cast! Everyone nailed the role they were given - big or small!

#kdrama #moving kdrama #moving #jo in sung #han hyo joo #ryoo seung ryong #Chae tae Hyun #park hee soon #Jo bok Rae #kim sung kyun #go yoon jung #lee jeong ha #kim do hoon

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itachanta · 1 year

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