Donald Justice Quotes

#1. 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.

Donald Justice

#2. See how the fearful chandelier trembles above you each time you open your mouth to sing.
Sing.

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#3. How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?

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#4. Come back now and help me with these verses. Whisper to me some beautiful secret that you remember from life.

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#5. Soon the purple dark must bruise
Lily and bleeding-heart and rose,
And the little Cupid lose
Eyes and ears and chin and nose

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#6. 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.

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#7. Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

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#8. Waiting for dusk and someone dear to come and whip him down the street, gently home

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#9. Even while you sit there, unmovable,
You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter.
The poem will go on without you.
It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

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#10. Donald justice:
i often wonder about the others,
where they are bound for on the voyage, what is the reason for their silence,
was there some reason to go away?

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#11. Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,

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#12. Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

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#13. There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

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#14. The Thin Man
I indulge myself
In rich refusals.
Nothing suffices.
I hone myself to
This edge. Asleep, I
Am a horizon.

Donald Justice