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Donald Justice [1925-2004] American
Rank: 107
Poet (with poems)

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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. 


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Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
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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.
102
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.
103
How shall I speak of Doom, and ours in special, But as of something altogether common?
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