Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 13 – Sterling Allen Brown, 87 (born 1901), poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
- February 28 – Richard Willard Armour, 82, of Parkinson's disease;
- August 25 – Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet, novelist, and writer
- September 15 – Robert Penn Warren (born 1905), poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- December 4 – May Swenson, American poet and playwright
- December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
Read more about this topic: 1989 In Poetry
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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)