Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 13 – Teiko Tomita (born 1894), Japanese-born American poet who wrote in Japanese
- May 14 – Mary Oppen, 82 (born 1908), American poet, activist, artist, photographer, and writer, wife of George Oppen
- October 12 – Nagai Tatsuo 永井龍男, used the pen-name of "Tomonkyo" for his poetry (born 1904), Japanese, Showa period novelist, short-story writer, haiku poet, editor and journalist
- November 7 – Lawrence Durrell, 78 (born 1912), English novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer
- November 11 – Yannis Ritsos, Greek
- Also:
- Frances Chung (poet)
- Nikos Karouzos, Greek
Read more about this topic: 1990 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)
“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)