Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 9 - Allen Tate, 79, American poet, of emphysema
- October 6 - Elizabeth Bishop, 68, American poet, from an aneurism
- December 7 — Nicolas Born, (born 1937), German
- Also:
- I. A. Richards, influential literary critic and rhetorician.
- Ernst Meister (born 1911), German
Read more about this topic: 1979 In Poetry
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)
“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)