Best quotes by Donald Justice
Donald Justice
American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980
Donald Rodney Justice (August 12, 1925 – August 6, 2004) was an American teacher of writing and poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1980. In summing up Justice's career David Orr wrote, "In most ways, Justice was no different from any number of solid, quiet older writers devoted to traditional short poems. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his poems weren't just good; they were great. They were great in the way that Elizabeth Bishop's poems were great, or Thom Gunn's or Philip Larkin's. They were great in the way that tells us what poetry used to be, and is, and will be."
All quotes by Donald Justice:
Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose
The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, A revenge not only necessary but right and clever-- Simply to leave him out of the scene forever.
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.
Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.