Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Mizuho Ōta 太田水穂 pen-name of "Teiichi Ōta" 太田 貞, he occasionally also used another pen name, "Mizuhonoya" (born 1876), Shōwa period Japanese poet and literary scholar (surname: Ōta)
- January 19 – Seaforth Mackenzie (born 1913), Australian poet and novelist
- January 20 – Robert P. Tristram Coffin, 62 (born 1892), American poet, essayist and novelist
- June 19 – Adrienne Monnier, 63 (born 1892), French poet and publisher
- July 18 – Weldon Kees, 41 (born 1914), American poet, was presumed dead (see "Events" section). He was a poet, critic, novelist, short story writer, painter and composer.
- August 2 – Wallace Stevens, 75 (born 1879), American poet
- December 30 – Rex Ingamells (born 1913), Australian, influential in the Jindyworobak Movement
- date not known – Brian Vrepont (born 1882), Australian
Read more about this topic: 1955 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)