Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 18 – Robert Payne at 71
- May 4 – Shūji Terayama 寺山 修司 (born 1935), Japanese, avant-garde poet, playwright, writer, film director and photographer
- June 19 – Vilmundur Gylfason, Icelandic historian and poet
- July 4 – Ted Berrigan, at 48 (born 1934), American
- July 12 – Edwin Denby, at 80 (born 1903) by suicide
- August 12 – Mikey Smith (born 1954), Jamaican dub poet, stoned to death
- Also:
- Frances Horovitz, English poet, broadcaster and performer of poetry
- Alden Nolan
Read more about this topic: 1983 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)
“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)
“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)