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

- Donald Justice

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

- Donald Justice

Nostalgias were peeled from it long ago.

- 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

- Donald Justice

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…

- Donald Justice

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