Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Chaganti Somayajulu (born 1915), Indian, Tegulu-language short-story writer and poet
- March 9 — Charles Bukowski, 73 (born 1920), American poet and novelist, of leukemia
- March 29 — Lynda Hull, 49 (born 1955), American poet, in an automobile accident;
- May 24 — John Wain, 69, English poet, novelist and critic, of a stroke
- September 10 — Amy Clampitt, 74, American poet, of ovarian cancer
- December 12 — Donna J. Stone, 61 (born 1933), American poet and philanthropist, of heart failure
- date not known:
- Rolf Jacobsen
Read more about this topic: 1994 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)
“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)