As a youth I was obsessed with graves.
There are six-hundred and eighty-nine
mounds in Hwandung Cemetery.

At Sarabong graveyard on Cheju Island
I would stop on the way every night

To sleep by the grave side.
Word spread that I was a ghost
residing in that cemetery....

from Memory of the Graves
by Ko Un

in the online version of the spring issue of Jubilat in which there is also a snippet from an interview with Jimmie Dale Gilmore in which he says this:

'Then I came across the passage by Ezra Pound, and I think I have this quote accurate. He said, "The poem fails when it strays too far from the song, and the song fails when it strays too far from the dance."'