"It is to be hoped—I mean, I hope—that the poetry I have been writing since 1992 squares up to, takes the measure of, weighs up, the violent evasions and stock affronts of the oligarchy of fraud. I don't, even so, write poems to be polemical; I write to create a being of beautiful energy."

"ace theory is at variance with all Korean traditions; not for nothing did the national language lack a word…"

"hroughout the ages to be educated meant to be unproductive.... our word "school" - and its equivalent in al…"

"The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the funda…"

"Socialism as a thoroughgoing system had failed. But the central emotion behind it had not. And that emotion…"

"There is really nothing more pathetic than to have an economist or a retired engineer try to force analogie…"

"The English language is often hailed as the "international language", but it is not the global language. In…"