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Koreans stuck to their traditional way of life without knowing what was going on outside the country. We were like frogs in a well.

Politicians are like horses, they cannot go properly without blinkers.

You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

After the motorcycle trips I take for one or two weeks, I have trouble getting back into a car, because I feel claustrophobic with all of that metal around me, and I can't see anything. I feel seriously dangerous in a car after riding on a bike, because your field of vision is so closed in. And then I think about all these little bourgeois people driving around in their cars - it's actually hideous. It cramps you on the head, it cramps you on the side, it puts you in a box on wheels... It's a terrible experience. Motorcycles are about opening the field of vision.

I'm a dumb guy. My point of view is limited.

People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

For now, poetry has the capacity - in its own ways and by its own means - to remind us of something we are forbidden to see.

I guess I need to get out more.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

There is beauty in living in a small space, as a child. Some aspects of it are so beautiful, and it's so nice to not see the darkness. But then, in other ways, there's a whole range of experience that's being missed because of it.

I like to show subjects inside a sealed veneer. There's a sense that you can't get in.

It's claustrophobic, and I think it is to do with the amount that we're exposing people to one particular point.

And the walls became the world all around.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

When you’re a housekeeper’s daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

Perspective starts from one viewpoint and never gets away from it. But the viewpoint is quite unimportant. It is though someone were to draw profiles all his life, leading people to think that a man has only one eye.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

My world is kind of small.

If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.

For him the universe did not extend beyond the circumference of her petticoat.

In my life, the sky is literally the ceiling.