Donald Justice quotes
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“Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.”
-- Donald JusticeSource : "Men at Forty" l. 1 (1967)
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“Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.”
-- Donald JusticeSource : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.160, Knopf
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“There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.”
-- Donald JusticeSource : Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.38, Knopf
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“How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?”
-- Donald JusticeSource : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.25, Knopf
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“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 JusticeSource : Donald Justice (2009). “New And Selected Poems”, p.71, Knopf
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“Soon the purple dark must bruise Lily and bleeding-heart and rose, And the little Cupid lose Eyes and ears and chin and nose”
-- Donald JusticeSource : Donald Justice (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.40, Knopf
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.”
Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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