Great men and wise sayings
A collection of quotes from renowned individuals throughout history, provided with their Korean translations.

Amanda Gorman - For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.

Amanda Gorman - For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it.
Amanda Gorman

"For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it. If only we're brave enough to be it." - Amanda Gorman.


"์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ณผ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋งŒ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋น›์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์žˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๋น›์ด ๋  ์šฉ๊ธฐ๋งŒ ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ง์ด๋‹ค." - ์–ด๋งจ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๋จผ.


Amanda Gorman - For There is Always Light

Amanda Gorman is a visionary American poet and activist who gained international acclaim as the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history. Born in 1998, she has dedicated her life to shedding light on issues of oppression, feminism, and race through the power of verse. Her words often serve as a bridge between a painful past and a hopeful future, inspiring generations to pursue social justice.

์•„๋งŒ๋‹ค ๊ณ ๋จผ์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์ƒ ์ตœ์—ฐ์†Œ ๋Œ€ํ†ต๋ น ์ทจ์ž„์‹ ์ถ•์‹œ ๋‚ญ๋…์ž๋กœ ์„ ์ •๋˜๋ฉฐ ๊ตญ์ œ์ ์ธ ์ฐฌ์‚ฌ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ›์€ ๋น„์ „ ์žˆ๋Š” ์‹œ์ธ์ด์ž ํ™œ๋™๊ฐ€์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 1998๋…„์— ํƒœ์–ด๋‚œ ๊ทธ๋…€๋Š” ์‹œ์˜ ํž˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์–ต์••, ํŽ˜๋ฏธ๋‹ˆ์ฆ˜, ์ธ์ข… ๋ฌธ์ œ ๋“ฑ์„ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ•˜๋Š” ๋ฐ ํ‰์ƒ์„ ๋ฐ”์ณ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ์–ธ์–ด๋Š” ์ข…์ข… ๊ณ ํ†ต์Šค๋Ÿฌ์šด ๊ณผ๊ฑฐ์™€ ํฌ๋ง์ฐฌ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜๋ฅผ ์ž‡๋Š” ๋‹ค๋ฆฌ ์—ญํ• ์„ ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ ์„ธ๋Œ€์—๊ฒŒ ์‚ฌํšŒ ์ •์˜๋ฅผ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋„๋ก ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Amanda Gorman


Courage to See the Light

"For there is always light, if only we're brave enough to see it" suggests that hope is a constant presence, even in our darkest hours. However, finding that hope requires a deliberate choice and immense courage. In times of despair, it is easy to succumb to darkness, but Gorman challenges us to look beyond our immediate struggles to find the glimmers of possibility that still exist.

"์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณผ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„ ๋งŒํผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์šฉ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋น›์€ ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์กด์žฌํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค"๋ผ๋Š” ๊ตฌ์ ˆ์€ ๊ฐ€์žฅ ์–ด๋‘์šด ์‹œ๊ฐ„์—๋„ ํฌ๋ง์€ ๋Š˜ ๊ณ์— ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•”์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ•˜์ง€๋งŒ ๊ทธ ํฌ๋ง์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด๋Š” ๋ฐ๋Š” ์˜๋„์ ์ธ ์„ ํƒ๊ณผ ์—„์ฒญ๋‚œ ์šฉ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ํ•„์š”ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ ˆ๋ง์˜ ์‹œ๊ธฐ์—๋Š” ์–ด๋‘ ์— ๊ตด๋ณตํ•˜๊ธฐ ์‰ฝ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ณ ๋จผ์€ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์—๊ฒŒ ๋‹น๋ฉดํ•œ ๊ณ ํ†ต ๋„ˆ๋จธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋ผ๋ณด๋ฉฐ ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ์กด์žฌํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์˜ ๋ฏธ๊ด‘์„ ์ฐพ์•„๋‚ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋„์ „ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Amanda Gorman


The Call to Be the Light

The second half of her message, "If only we're brave enough to be it," shifts the responsibility from passive observation to active participation. It is not enough to simply look for a better world; we must embody the change we wish to see. To "be the light" means to act with kindness, integrity, and justice, serving as a beacon for others who may still be lost in the shadows.

๊ทธ๋…€์˜ ๋ฉ”์‹œ์ง€ ํ›„๋ฐ˜๋ถ€์ธ "์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ ๋น›์ด ๋  ๋งŒํผ ์ถฉ๋ถ„ํžˆ ์šฉ๊ฐํ•˜๋‹ค๋ฉด"์€ ์ฑ…์ž„์„ ์ˆ˜๋™์ ์ธ ๊ด€์ฐฐ์—์„œ ๋Šฅ๋™์ ์ธ ์ฐธ์—ฌ๋กœ ์ „ํ™˜ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹จ์ˆœํžˆ ๋” ๋‚˜์€ ์„ธ์ƒ์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ๋งŒ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ณ€ํ™”๋ฅผ ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„ํ•ด์•ผ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. '๋น›์ด ๋œ๋‹ค'๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ์นœ์ ˆ๊ณผ ์ •์ง, ์ •์˜๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํ–‰๋™ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์—ฌ์ „ํžˆ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ž ์†์—์„œ ๊ธธ์„ ์žƒ์€ ํƒ€์ธ๋“ค์„ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋“ฑ๋ถˆ์ด ๋˜์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์˜๋ฏธํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

Amanda Gorman


Hope as an Active Choice

Gorman’s philosophy teaches us that optimism is a form of bravery. In a world often filled with conflict, choosing to be a source of positivity is a radical act. By reclaiming our agency and committing to enlightened action, we can transform our communities. Let us strive not only to find the light in the world but to kindle it within ourselves and share it with everyone we meet.

๊ณ ๋จผ์˜ ์ฒ ํ•™์€ ๋‚™๊ด€์ฃผ์˜๊ฐ€ ์ผ์ข…์˜ ์šฉ๊ธฐ์ž„์„ ๊ฐ€๋ฅด์ณ ์ค๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ฐˆ๋“ฑ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ€๋“ ์ฐฌ ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ๊ธ์ •์˜ ์›์ฒœ์ด ๋˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋งค์šฐ ํ˜๋ช…์ ์ธ ํ–‰์œ„์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์šฐ๋ฆฌ์˜ ์ฃผ์ฒด์„ฑ์„ ํšŒ๋ณตํ•˜๊ณ  ๊นจ์–ด ์žˆ๋Š” ํ–‰๋™์— ์ „๋…ํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์จ ์šฐ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ์ง€์—ญ์‚ฌํšŒ๋ฅผ ๋ณ€ํ™”์‹œํ‚ฌ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์„ธ์ƒ์—์„œ ๋น›์„ ์ฐพ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์— ๊ทธ์น˜์ง€ ์•Š๊ณ , ์šฐ๋ฆฌ ๋‚ด๋ฉด์˜ ๋น›์„ ๋ฐํ˜€ ๋งŒ๋‚˜๋Š” ๋ชจ๋“  ์ด๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ทธ ๋น›์„ ๋‚˜๋ˆŒ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋„๋ก ๋…ธ๋ ฅํ•ฉ์‹œ๋‹ค.


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