Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 22 – Zora Cross, Australian poet
- April 5 – Tatsuji Miyoshi 三好達治 (born 1900), Japanese, Showa period literary critic, editor and poet
- April 26 – E.J. Pratt, 81, a Canadian poet
- May 5 – Nagata Mikihiko 長田幹彦 (born 1887), Japanese, Showa period poet, playwright and screenwriter
- December 9 – Dame Edith Sitwell, 77 (born 1887), of a heart attack, English poet and critic
- September 18 – Clive Bell, 83, English critic
- October 10 – Oscar Williams, 64, American poet and anthologist
- Also:
- Raphael Campo, American poet
- Takamure Itsue 高群逸枝 (born 1894), Japanese poet, writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist and historian
Read more about this topic: 1964 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)
“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)
“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)