Notes from the Divided Country Quotes

“Poor fool, you are divided at the heart,
Lost in its maze of chambers, blood, and love,
A heart that will one day beat you to death.

— Suji Kwock Kim, from “Monologue For an Onion,” Notes from the Divided Country. (LSU Press; First Edition edition April 1, 2003)”
― Suji Kwock Kim, Notes from the Divided Country: Poems

“Have you ever hurt your heart wanting, wanting for years,
asking why what happened
happened, hoping beyond the last desire to feel hope—”
― Suji Kwock Kim, Notes from the Divided Country: Poems

“You must not grieve that the world is glimpsed
Through veils. How else can it be seen?
How will you rip away the veil of the eye, the veil

That you are, you who want to grasp the heart
Of things, hungry to know where meaning
Lies.

-- excerpt from "Monologue for an Onion”
― Suji Kwock Kim, Notes from the Divided Country: Poems