Maybe the Stars Will Take Away Your Sadness 어쩌면 별들이 너의 슬픔을 가져갈지도 몰라 - 10th Anniversary Hardcover Edition

Maybe the Stars Will Take Away Your Sadness 어쩌면 별들이 너의 슬픔을 가져갈지도 몰라 - 10th Anniversary Hardcover Edition

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Maybe the Stars Will Take Away Your Sadness 어쩌면 별들이 너의 슬픔을 가져갈지도 몰라 - 10th Anniversary Hardcover Edition

Maybe the Stars Will Take Away Your Sadness 어쩌면 별들이 너의 슬픔을 가져갈지도 몰라 - 10th Anniversary Hardcover Edition

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Korea's leading steady-selling poetry transcription series, loved by 700,000 readers
A newly redesigned hardcover edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of publication!

Since its publication, Maybe the Stars Will Take Away Your Sadness has been steadily loved by readers as one of the most representative poetry transcription books in Korea, and it once again became a major topic of conversation after appearing in the K-drama Goblin, officially titled Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. Now, to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the book has been reborn as a hardcover edition. Life Pattern Korea. Containing 101 poems carefully selected by poet Kim Yong Taik, this book has become a "first poetry transcription book" for countless readers and helped lead the popularity of copying poems by hand. With this renewed edition, redesigned in an elegant and refined style, readers will once again be able to recharge their emotions and spend time calming the heart.

This book is not simply about experiencing the act of copying letters onto the page through "transcription." It is an emotional healing writing book that helps heal wounded feelings through the process of reading poetry with the eyes, writing it with the hands, and engraving it in the heart. Life Pattern Korea. Through this book, readers will be able to spend a brief time comforting and gently encouraging themselves.

Poet Kim Yong Taik's 101 Recommended Poems to Copy by Hand

Poet Kim Yong Taik is well known by the nickname "Seomjingang Poet." In 2001, he introduced Poetry Came to Me, a collection of poems from a literary genre that many people had not been paying attention to, and helped make poetry more familiar to the general public. Life Pattern Korea. He personally read and copied poems by many literary figures, then carefully selected 101 poems with the hope that readers would also copy them by hand at least once.

This book includes works by familiar poets often encountered in textbooks, such as Kim Sowol, Yi Yuksa, Yun Dong-ju, and Baek Seok. It also includes poems by writers who shaped their era, such as Kim Hyesoon, Lee Seong-bok, and Shin Kyung-rim, as well as messages from foreign writers such as Paul Eluard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Johann Goethe. Life Pattern Korea. In addition, it introduces 10 poems by Kim Yong Taik, a poet beloved by readers. The language of love and joy, everyday life and nature, courage and hope delivered through a total of 101 poems shines even more when readers go beyond simply reading the poems and copy each poem by hand.

An Emotional Healing Writing Book, Read by Hand and Engraved in the Heart

Novelist Shin Kyung-sook once said, "The fullness I felt while copying by hand was a unique experience that engraved in me what I would do with my life," and poet Ham Min-bok said, "Poetry is a path of the heart." Life Pattern Korea. The meeting of transcription and poetry, praised by writers, comes together in this emotional healing writing book.

Now, instead of copying novels or the Bible, try copying beautiful poems through this emotional healing writing book. The left-hand page contains the original poem, while the right-hand page provides emotionally designed blank space, making it easy for readers to copy the poem by hand. Life Pattern Korea. It has been made as a single, easy-to-carry volume.

As readers copy each letter of the incomplete world seen by the poet, they can experience the special process of completing a world of their own. This is not simply the act of copying letters onto the page. Life Pattern Korea. Through the process of reading poetry with the eyes, writing it with the hands, and engraving it in the heart, a door to empathy opens and a path of communication is created. In that process, wounded feelings may be healed, and readers may find time to comfort and gently encourage themselves.

A Time to Listen to the Voice Within and Find Peace of Mind

Part 1, "I Loved When the Leaves Opened, I Loved When the Wind Blew, I Loved When the Colors Deepened," recalls the time of love through poets such as Lee Byung-ryul, Jung Kut-byul, Lee Moon-jae, and Jacques Prevert. Love may have been endlessly happy, yet it was not simply sweet. Life Pattern Korea. As readers think of someone in their hearts and look back on the joy and pain of love, they will become stronger within.

On days when you want to listen to everyday life and the voice within, try copying Part 2, "I Will Listen to the Song of the Wind, to the Life That Came Crying and Is Still Crying, and to the Life That Came Laughing and Left Crying." Poets such as Hwang Dong-gyu, Kim Sa-in, and Ki Hyung-do contemplate the beauty of nature, and at the same time, the difficulties of a life that does not flow as expected. Life Pattern Korea. The writers' delicate sentences will gently comfort and embrace the complex and subtle emotions of life.

When moments of exhaustion and hardship come, try writing Part 3, "The Wind Will Take Me, the Sunlight Will Share Me, the Spring Rain Will Take Me Along." Poets such as Choi Seung-ja, Kim Soo-young, and Kim Sowol deliver messages that encourage hope and courage. Life Pattern Korea. They open a path through life.

If you need a moment to pause and breathe while living, try copying Part 4, "Stop Your Steps, Hold Your Breath, and Close Your Eyes." The clear and honest poetic language of Kim Yong Taik awakens the hidden lyricism within us. Life Pattern Korea. It also brings warmth to the heart.

As readers copy a total of 101 poems and follow the worlds created by the poets, they will eventually be able to find fullness and peace within themselves. Life Pattern Korea.

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Author: 김용택
Publisher: 위즈덤하우스 Wisdom House (2025)

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