My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.
I am an artist and a political being as well.
The truth is that sometimes art may not exactly reflect one's personal politics, but the story, the drama, the thing you're trying to say, might want to go in a certain direction, and while it may seem like it has resonance with things that are happening topically, you kind of want the world you're creating to have its own internal logic.
I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Bottom line, I have to follow what my soul says, or my spirit. And my spirit said that poetry and the arts should be without borders, should be without political borders.
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.
But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.