Donald Justice Quotes

Donald Justice was an American poet and teacher of writing. 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. But he was different in one important sense: sometimes his poems weren't just good; they were great. They were great in the way that Elizabeth Bishop's poems were great, or Thom Gunn's or Philip Larkin's. They were great in the way that tells us what poetry used to be, and is, and will be." Wikipedia  

✵ 12. August 1925 – 6. August 2004
Donald Justice: 4 quotes1 like

Famous Donald Justice Quotes

“Between the lines it must have hurt
To see the neighborhood go down,
Your neighbor in his undershirt
At dusk come out to mow his lawn.”

Donald Justice

To the Unknown Lady Who Wrote the Letters Found In the Hatbox
Night Light (1967)

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