The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty of sincerity.
We simply have not kept in touch with poetry.
Still language is resilient and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground.
Dealing with poetry is a daunting task simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.
We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
I came here as a practical man to talk not simply on the question of peace and war but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.
Aside from what it teaches you there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists but simply announce that they are don't have the patience to make art.