Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 29 – Robert Frost, 88, American poet
- February 11 – Sylvia Plath by suicide
- March 4 – William Carlos Williams, 79
- April 25 – Christopher Vernon Hassall
- May 6 – Mantarō Kubota 久保田万太郎 (born 1889), Japanese author, playwright and poet
- August 1 – Theodore Roethke, 55, American poet and winner of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- September 3 – Louis MacNeice, 55, British poet, playwright and producer, of pneumonia
- October 11 — Jean Cocteau, 74, French poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer, producer and critic
- December 2 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (born 1872), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods
- December 24 – Tristan Tzara, 67, French poet (native of Romania) and a founder of Dadaism
- Also:
- Eva Dobell (born 1867) English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers
- Evelyn Scott (born 1893), American poet, novelist and playwright
Read more about this topic: 1963 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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)