Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 13 – Sterling Allen Brown, 87 (born 1901), poet, teacher and writer on folklore and of literary criticism
- February 28 – Richard Willard Armour, 82, of Parkinson's disease;
- August 25 – Hans Børli, 70, Norwegian poet, novelist, and writer
- September 15 – Robert Penn Warren (born 1905), poet and writer, former U.S. Poet Laureate, of cancer
- December 4 – May Swenson, American poet and playwright
- December 22 – Samuel Beckett, Irish poet, playwright and novelist who won the Nobel Prize in 1969
Read more about this topic: 1989 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)
“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)
“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)