1967 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • March 16 – Thomas MacGreevy 72 (born 1893), Irish poet, director of the National Gallery of Ireland and member of the first Irish Arts Council
  • March 30 – Jean Toomer, 72, American poet, novelist and important figure of the Harlem Renaissance
  • May 10 – Margaret Larkin, 67
  • May 12 – John Masefield, 88 (died 1978), English poet writer, and Poet Laureate
  • May 22 – Langston Hughes, 65 (born 1902), African American poet, of heart failure
  • June 7 – Dorothy Parker, 73, American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of a heart attack
  • June 23 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (born 1899), novelist and poet
  • July 13 – Yoshino Hideo 吉野秀雄 (born 1902), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet
  • July 19 – Odel Shepard, 82
  • July 22 – Carl Sandburg, 89, American historian and poet, of a heart attack
  • July 25 – Pierre Albert Birot, 91, French poet and writer
  • September (exact date not known) — Augusto Casimiro, 78, Portuguese poet and founder of the Seara Nova literary review
  • September 1 – Siegfried Sassoon, 80, English poet, author
  • September 5 – David C. DeJong, at 62
  • October 8 – Vernon Watkins, 61, Welsh poet and painter
  • November 17 – Bo Bergman, 98, Swedish poet
  • November 30 – Patrick Kavanagh, 62 (born 1904), Irish poet and novelist, of pneumonia
  • Also:
    • Christopher Okigko
    • V. Penelope Pelizzon

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
    —Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)

    “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)

    “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)