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Donald Justice

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


— Donald Justice


#courage

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


— Donald Justice


#common #doom #how #i #ours

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


— Donald Justice


#close #coming #doors #forty #learn

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


— Donald Justice


#ease #harm #land #leads #others






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Justice was also a National Book Award Finalist in 1961 1974 and 1995. He was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1991 and the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1996. Justice publiDonald Justiced thirteen collections of his poetry.

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. They were great in the way that tells us what poetry used to be and is and will be. They were great in the way that Elizabeth Bishop's poems were great or Thom Gunn's or Philip Larkin's.

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