Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 19 – Kazimierz Wierzynski, 74, Polish poet
- March 12 – André Salmon, 87, French poet, critic and novelist
- March 25 – Max Eastman, 86, American poet and editor
- April 22 – Rolfe Humphries, 74, of emphysema;
- May 4 – Sir Osbert Sitwell, 76, of a heart attack
- May 26 – Henry Rago, American poet and editor of Poetry
- July 11 – Guilherme de Almeida, called the "prince of Brazilian poetry"
- July 23 – Floyd Bell, 82, of a heart ailment;
- October 21 – Jack Kerouac, influential Beat Generation American poet, writer, novelist
- Also:
- Loys Masson (born 1915), French poet
- Vivian de Sola Pinto, British poet, memoirist, literary critic and historian
- W. R. Rodgers (born 1909), Irish poet, essayist, book reviewer, radio broadcaster, script writer, lecturer, teacher and Presbyterian minister
Read more about this topic: 1969 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)
“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)
“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)