Yun Dong-ju's most famous lines (with the poem)
The top 3 according to 11 votes from people: They say life is hard to live; / that a poem should be written so easily / is a shameful thing. · Until the day I die, looking up at the sky, / I hope to have no speck of shame. / Even the wind stirring the leaves / has troubled me. · The sky where the seasons pass / is filled with autumn.. (Updated May 14, 2022.)
From "Prologue" ("Until the day I die, looking up at the sky") to "Counting the Stars at Night", "A Poem Easily Written" and "Self-Portrait": lines by Yun Dong-ju, who died aged 27 in Fukuoka prison on 16 February 1945, from his posthumous collection Sky, Wind, Stars and Poems (1948).
Automatically translated (original in 한국어). See the original
Top 14
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They say life is hard to live; / that a poem should be written so easily / is a shameful thing.
Poem "A Poem Easily Written", 1942.
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Until the day I die, looking up at the sky, / I hope to have no speck of shame. / Even the wind stirring the leaves / has troubled me.
Poem "Prologue", 1941.
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The sky where the seasons pass / is filled with autumn.
Poem "Counting the Stars at Night", 1941.
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One star for memory, / one star for love, / one star for loneliness, / one star for longing, / one star for poetry, / one star for mother, mother,
Poem "Counting the Stars at Night", 1941.
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I hold out a small hand to myself: / the first handshake, held with tears and comfort.
Poem "A Poem Easily Written", 1942.
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6
That my face remains / in a copper mirror green with rust, / the relic of what dynasty, / that it should be so shameful?
Poem "Confession", 1942.
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When winter passes and spring comes to my star, / as grass greens a grave, / grass will grow thick, like pride, / on the hill where my name lies buried.
Poem "Counting the Stars at Night", 1941.
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Tonight again the stars are brushed by the wind.
Poem "Prologue", 1941.
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In the well the moon is bright, clouds drift, the sky spreads, a blue wind blows and there is autumn. / And there is a man.
Poem "Self-Portrait", 1939.
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10
The road I walked yesterday and will walk today: / my road, a new road.
Poem "A New Road", 1938.
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11
If I live, it is only / because I am searching for what I lost.
Poem "The Road".
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12
The night I came back home / my skeleton followed me and lay down in the same room.
Poem "Another Hometown", 1941.
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13
With a heart that sings to the stars / I must love all things that are dying, / and I must walk / the path that has been given to me.
Poem "Prologue", 1941.
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14
Outside the window the night rain whispers; / this six-mat room is a foreign land.
Poem "A Poem Easily Written", 1942.
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