“How is your book doing?" or "How many copies have you sold?" are the questions for a salesman. To a writer, you better ask "What did you write today?".”
―
―
“This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.”
―
―
“But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.”
― Decoded
― Decoded
“When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time. ”
―
―
¡ POETRY !
— 22585 members
— last activity Dec 24, 2025 01:37PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read ...more
Cynthia’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Cynthia’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Cynthia
Lists liked by Cynthia

























