Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 3 – Edwin Muir, 72 (born 1887), Scottish poet, novelist and translator
- February 20 – Zalman Shneur, 72, Hebrew-Yiddish poet and author
- February 23 – Luis Palés Matos, Puerto Rican poet, of a heart attack
- April 4 – Sarah Cleghorn, 83
- April 8 – Kyoshi Takahama 高浜 虚子, pen name of Kiyoshi Takahama (born 1874), Japanese, Shōwa period poet; close disciple of Masaoka Shiki
- June 9 – Ryuko Kawaji 川路柳虹, pen-name of Kawaki Makoto (born 1888), Japanese, Showa period poet and literary critic
- June 23 – Boris Vian, 39, French writer, poet, singer, and musician
- July 6 – George Grosz (born 1893), German artist and poet, died from falling down a flight of stairs after a night drinking
- August 5 – Edgar Guest, 79, American poet known as the "poet of the people"
- August 21 – Denis Devlin (born 1908) Irish modernist poet and career diplomat
- September 18 – Benjamin Péret, 60, French poet and Surrealist
- December 27 – Alfonso Reyes, 70, Mexican poet, and writer
Read more about this topic: 1959 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is young, the scale is heavily tipped toward the living. With the first death, the first consciousness of death, the counter scale begins to fall. Death by death, the scales shift weight until what was unthinkable becomes merely a matter of gravity and the fall into death becomes an easy step.”
—Alison Hawthorne Deming (b. 1946)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)