Deaths
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- January 3 – G. S. Fraser (born 1915), Scotts poet and critic,
- February 12 – Muriel Rukeyser, 66 (born 1913), American, of a heart attack
- February 25 – Robert Hayden, 66, poet, essayist, and educator, of a heart ailment
- March 25 – James Wright, 52, of cancer
- March 31 – Vladimir Holan, 74, Czech
- April 21 – Sohrab Sepehri (born 1928), Persian poet and painter
- April 30 – Luis Muñoz Marín (born 1898), Puerto Rican poet, journalist, and politician
- June 20 – Amy Key Clarke (born 1892), English mystical poet
- July 9 – Vinicius de Moraes (born 1913), Brazilian writer, poet and diplomat
- July 25 – Vladimir Vysotsky (born 1938), Russian singer-songwriter, poet, actor
- August 9 – Denis Glover (born 1911) New Zealand poet and publisher
- September 2 – Frederick T. Macartney (born 1887), Australian
- October 18 – Martin Haley (born 1905), Australian poet, essayist, translator and schoolteacher
- October 25 – Sahir Ludhianvi (born 1921), Urdu/Hindustani poet and Hindi film lyricist
- November 21 – A.J.M. Smith (born 1902), Canadian poet
- November 28 – Julia Reynolds (poet), 98
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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)
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)