Donald Justice quotes

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. (Donald Justice)
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence. View quote
Donald Justice
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common? View quote
Donald Justice
If he could sleep on it. He would make his bed with white sheets And disappear into the white, Like a man diving, If he could be certain That the light Would not keep him awake, The light that reaches To the bottom. View quote
Donald Justice
You neither can nor should understand what it means. Listen, it comes without guitar, Neither in rags nor in any purple fashion. And there is nothing in it to comfort you. View quote
Donald Justice
Between the lines it must have hurt To see the neighborhood go down, Your neighbor in his undershirt At dusk come out to mow his lawn. View quote
Donald Justice
Merry the green, the green hill shall be merry. Hungry, the owlet shall seek out the mouse And Jack his Joan, but they shall never marryAnd snow shall fly, the big flakes fat and furry. Lonely, the traveler shall seek out the house, And Jack his Joan, but they shall never marry.Weary the soldiers go, and come back weary, Up a green hill and down the withered hill, And Jack from Joan, but they shall never marry. View quote
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This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, no one. You will have changed before the poem will. View quote
Donald Justice