Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 4 — T. S. Eliot, 76, American/British poet
- January 28 – Motokichi Takahashi 高橋元吉 (born 1893), Japanese, Taishō and Showa period poet
- February 2 — Richard Blackmur, 61, American literary critic and poet
- March 17 – Nancy Cunard, 69, English writer, editor and publisher
- June 5 – Eleanor Farjeon, 84, poet poet and author
- July 10 – Jacques Audiberti 66, French playwright, poet and novelist and exponent of the Theatre of the Absurd
- August 17:
- Jack Spicer, American poet often identified with the San Francisco Renaissance
- Jun Takami 高見順 pen-name of Takama Yoshioa (born 1907), Japanese, Showa period novelist and poet
- August 24 – Fuyue Anzai 安西 冬衛 (born 1898) Japanese poet and co-founder of the magazine Shi To Shiron ("Poetry and Poetics")
- October 15 or October 14 – Randall Jarrell, 51, American author, writer and poet, in a highway accident;
- June 22 – Joseph Auslander, 67, of a heart attack
- September 2 – Johannes Bobrowski (born 1917), German poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist
- November 28 – Aslaug Vaa, of Norway
- Also:
- Kirsten Hammann, Denmark
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)