Deaths
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- January 2 – Roland Flint, United States, at 66, of cancer
- April 21 – Al Purdy, Canada, at 81, of lung cancer
- April 21 – Douglas Oliver, United Kingdom
- May 14 – Karl Shapiro, at 86
- September 25 – R.S. Thomas, 87, Anglo-Welsh poet
- June 9 – Ernst Jandl (born 1925), Austrian poet, author and translator
- June 26 – Judith Wright, United States, 85, of a heart attack
- July 13 – Alex Derwent Hope, 92, poet
- September 22 – Yehuda Amichai (born 1924), Israeli poet
- November 29 – William Scammell
- December 3 – Gwendolyn Brooks, 83, of cancer
- December 20 – Adrian Henry
- Date not known:
- Edgar Bowers, at 75, of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma
- John Bruce (poet), Canada
- Lauris Edmond (born 1924), New Zealand
- Libby Scheier, Canada
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
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