When I discover who I am, I'll be free.Ralph Ellison
“Until the day I die, I long to look up at the heavens without a speck of shame.”
Poet · 1917 – 1945
Yun Dong-ju was a Korean poet who wrote lyrical, conscience-stricken verse under Japanese colonial rule. Arrested for independence activities, he died in a Fukuoka prison at twenty-eight; his poem 'Foreword' is known to every Korean schoolchild.
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