Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 3 – Rose Ausländer, at 86 (born 1901)
- February 3 – Robert Duncan, at 69 (born 1919), of a heart attack
- March 30 – John Clellon Holmes, 62 (born 1926), of cancer
- June 16 – Miguel Pinero, 41, of cirrhosis of the liver
- October 1 – Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, 90
- Also:
- Léonie Fuller Adams
- Henry Coulette
- M. Govindan (born 1919), Indian, Malayalam-language poet
- Premendra Mitra (born 1904) Bengali poet, novelist, short-story writer, including thrillers and science fiction
- Mairtin O Direain (born 1910), Irish
Read more about this topic: 1988 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)
“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)