Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 30 – Jessie Redmon Fauset (born 1885), novelist and poet
- September 27 – Hilda Doolittle, aka "H.D.", 75, American poet, novelist and memoirist, of a heart attack
- December 24 – Robert Hillyer, 66 (born 1895), American poet
- date not known – Kenneth Fearing, 58, American poet and writer
Read more about this topic: 1961 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)