Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 7 – John Berryman, 57, American poet, from suicide (jumping off a bridge into the Mississippi River)
- January 8 – Kenneth Patchen, 60 (born 1911), American poet and painter, of a heart attack
- January 11 – Padraic Colum, 90, Irish–American poet
- February 5 – Marianne Moore, 84 (born 1887), American Modernist poet and writer
- March 4 – Richard Church (poet), 78, English poet, critic and novelist
- May 22 – Cecil Day-Lewis, 68 English poet
- August 2 – Paul Goodman (born 1911), American poet, of a heart attack
- August 21 – A.M. Klein, 61, Ukrainian-Canadian poet and writer
- October 3 – Gladys Schmitt, 63
- October 22 – James K. Baxter, 46, New Zealand poet
- November 1 – Ezra Pound, 87, an American poet, critic and the driving force behind several Modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism, from an intestinal blockage
- November 20 – Robert Fletcher (poet), 87, poet of "Don't Fence Me In"
- December 10 – Mark Van Doren, 78, American poet, academic and critic
- December 20 – Günter Eich (born 1907) German poet, dramatist, and author
- Also:
- Eileen Duggan
- Andrew John Young
Read more about this topic: 1972 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)