Katerina Stoykova Klemer Quotes

#1. There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It's just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

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#2. Your own guilt is your own fault.

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#3. Writing poetry is supernatural. Or, it should be.

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#4. Being safe doesn't mean you won't be sorry.

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#5. So, what did you learn?
Curiosity asked the Cat, then
poked her carcass with a stick.

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#6. Envy won't make you a better poet.

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#7. Poetry is a connection to a change within you.

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#8. More words DO NOT make a poem bigger!

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#9. Everybody deserves love, but nobody is entitled to it.

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#10. If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

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#11. Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

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#12. Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.

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#13. manuscript
meanuscript
moanuscript
manurescript
and so on

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#14. In the land of sour grapes, the half-eaten apple is the queen

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#15. My Personality
unfolding before you
like a Swiss Army knife.

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#16. Lineation can make your break your poems.

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#17. If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it.

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#18. I want to do a good job living today.

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#19. Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future.

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#20. Often I Wish I Were
a potato.
Eyes opened
in all directions.
Unafraid
of the cold earth.
The difference
between life and death
for somebody.

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#21. The ultimate goal of writing is forgiveness.

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#22. How to Write a Poem
Catch the air
around the butterfly.

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#23. Unforgiveness,
splinter in your breastbone, lives
there lodged like a small tree.
Withers in winter, looms
in spring. Its fruit is sweet
on first bite, then turns
into the taste of your own flesh.

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#24. Be nice to your children. They may grow up to be writers.

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#25. Mental clarity ain't for the faint of heart.

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#26. Now we go in and take over," answered A. "It's our duty to help these people.

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#27. Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.

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#28. If you can't feel anything, it doesn't mean it's not hurting.

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#29. I've never heard anyone say I wish I hadn't forgiven.

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#30. Having love and not giving it is just as difficult as not having love and needing it

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#31. If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

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#32. The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good.

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#33. As we change, our writing changes too. You cannot write the same poem twice. And that's a good thing.

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#34. Impatience kills quickly.

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#35. Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

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#36. The Four Stages of Writer's Block
W.B. Stage I: I want to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage II: I have to write but I can't.
W.B. Stage I: I don't want to write but I have to.
W.B. Stage I: I don't have time for writing ... and, honestly, I don't feel like writing.

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#37. Every advantage is temporary.

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