Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 30 – Jessie Redmon Fauset (born 1885), novelist and poet
- September 27 – Hilda Doolittle, aka "H.D.", 75, American poet, novelist and memoirist, of a heart attack
- December 24 – Robert Hillyer, 66 (born 1895), American poet
- date not known – Kenneth Fearing, 58, American poet and writer
Read more about this topic: 1961 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.”
—Philip Caputo (b. 1941)
“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)
“I sang of death but had I known
The many deaths one must have died
Before he came to meet his own!”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)