# Kim Sowol's most famous lines (with the poem)

From "Azaleas" ("I will send you off quietly, without a word") to "Mother, Sister", "The Invocation" and "Mountain Flowers": the best-known lines by Kim Sowol (1902–1934), the folk-song lyric poet who died at 32, mainly from his collection Azaleas (1925).

- 22 votes · 12 items
- Nov 18, 2021 · Donghyun Han
- https://even.best/en/l/5244/kim-sowol-s-most-famous-lines-with-the-poem

## Top 12

1. **Name shattered to pieces! / Name scattered in the empty air! / Name with no owner when I call it! / Name I will die calling!** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Poem "The Invocation", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
2. **Mother, sister, let us live by the river: / glittering golden sand in the yard, / the song of the reeds beyond the back gate.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Poem "Mother, Sister", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
3. **Even if I turn to stone standing here, / name I will die calling! / The one I loved! / The one I loved!** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Poem "The Invocation", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
4. **When you leave, / weary of seeing me, / I will send you off quietly, without a word.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Poem "Azaleas", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
5. **The little bird that sings on the mountain / loves the flowers / and lives / on the mountain.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Poem "Mountain Flowers", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
6. **From Mount Yak in Yeongbyeon / I will pick an armful of azaleas / and scatter them on the road you take.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "Azaleas", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
7. **When you leave, / weary of seeing me, / I will not shed a tear, even if I die.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "Azaleas", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
8. **You will think of me, unable to forget; / even so, live your life out.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "Unable to Forget", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
9. **Should I say / I miss you? / When I think it, I miss you more.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Poem "The Way Out", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
10. **If only we had land of our own to set our ploughshares in!** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — Poem "If Only We Had Land to Plough".
11. **On the mountain flowers bloom, / flowers bloom, / autumn, spring and summer, / flowers bloom.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Poem "Mountain Flowers", from the collection Azaleas (1925).
12. **If you come looking for me someday far away, / then my words will be: "I have forgotten."** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — Poem "Someday Far Away", from the collection Azaleas (1925).

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