Donald Justice Professions : Poet Born : August 12, 1925 Died : August 6, 2004 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Donald Justice Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago. Donald Justice long-ago nostalgia long How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common? Donald Justice fate special common The artist will have had his revenge for being made to wait, Donald Justice revenge clever art Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. Donald Justice meaningful men funny 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 silence land journey Soon the purple dark must bruise Donald Justice eye dark heart 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. Donald Justice man light white sleep Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors