Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 9 - Allen Tate, 79, American poet, of emphysema
- October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, 68, American poet, from an aneurism
- December 7 — Nicolas Born, (born 1937), German
- Also:
- I. A. Richards, influential literary critic and rhetorician.
- Ernst Meister (born 1911), German
Read more about this topic: 1979 In Poetry
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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)