Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Leonard Bacon (poet), 66 (born 1887)
- March 28 – Francis Brett Young, 73 (born 1884), English novelist and poet
- May 26 – Maxwell Bodenheim, 62 (born 1892), American poet and novelist known as the "King of Greenwich Village Bohemians"
- August 3 – Fumiko Nakajo 中城ふみ子, pen name of Noe Fumiko 野江富美子 (born 1922), Japanese tanka poet who died at age 32 after a turbulent life and struggle with breast cancer, as recorded in her poetry (surname: Nakajo)
- August 18 – Samukawa Sokotsu 寒川鼠骨(born 1875),Haiku poet in Japan of Meiji period. Masaoka Shiki's pupil.
- October 22 – Jibananda Das (born 1899), Bengali poet
Read more about this topic: 1954 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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)