Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 11 — Jacques Prévert, French
- September 12 — Robert Lowell, 60, American, from a heart attack;
- December 18 — Louis Untermeyer, 92, American author, poet, anthologist, and editor
- December 30 — Katherine C. Biddle, 87
- Also:
- Elizabeth Daryush, daughter of Robert Bridges (born 1885), English poet
- Gitaujali Badruddin
Read more about this topic: 1977 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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)