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:
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)