1981 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • March 15 – Horiguchi Daigaku 堀口 大学 (born 1892), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet and translator of French literature; a member of the Shinshisha ("The New Poetry Society"); accompanied his father on overseas diplomatic postings
  • April 26 – Robert Garioch (born 1909)
  • May 31 – Falguni Ray (born 1945), Bengali poet and youngest member of Hungryalism movement
  • August 27 – James Larkin Pearson (born 1879), American poet, newspaper publisher; North Carolina Poet Laureate, 1953–1981
  • September 12 – Eugenio Montale, 85, Italian poet, prose writer, editor and translator, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1975.
  • October 26 – Marie Uguay, 26 (born 1955), French-Canadian), from bone cancer
  • October 30 – George Brassens, French
  • Also:
    • Adolf Beiss (born 1900), German
    • John Glassco (born 1909), Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist
    • Ada Verdun Howell (born 1902), Australian
    • Leonard Mann (born 1895), Australian
    • Takis Sinopoulos (born 1917), Greek

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    “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)

    “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.”
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    “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)