Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 29 – Robert Frost, 88, American poet
- February 11 – Sylvia Plath by suicide
- March 4 – William Carlos Williams, 79
- April 25 – Christopher Vernon Hassall
- May 6 – Mantarō Kubota 久保田万太郎 (born 1889), Japanese author, playwright and poet
- August 1 – Theodore Roethke, 55, American poet and winner of the 1954 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- September 3 – Louis MacNeice, 55, British poet, playwright and producer, of pneumonia
- October 11 — Jean Cocteau, 74, French poet, playwright, novelist, painter, designer, producer and critic
- December 2 – Sasaki Nobutsuna 佐佐木信綱 (born 1872), Japanese, Showa period tanka poet and scholar of the Nara and Heian periods
- December 24 – Tristan Tzara, 67, French poet (native of Romania) and a founder of Dadaism
- Also:
- Eva Dobell (born 1867) English poet, nurse, and editor best known for her verses related to World War I soldiers
- Evelyn Scott (born 1893), American poet, novelist and playwright
Read more about this topic: 1963 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)