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Poetry | Aphorisms on Poetry by Lee Seong-Bok

‘Because poetry must use language, which is inherently opaque and unstable, it has to be more precise than mathematics. For poets, there is no higher morality than precision.’

Lee Seong-Bok on poetry.

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