Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 16 – Susan McGowan, poet (born 1907), Australian
- June 28 – C. B. Christesen, poet and founding editor of Meanjin (born 1911), Australian
- July 6 – Kathleen Jessie Raine (born 1908), an English poet, critic and scholar
- July 8 – Subhash Mukhopadhyay (born 1919), Bengali poet
- July 9 – Josephine Jacobsen (born 1908), American poet, short story writer, and critic
- July 15 – Roberto Bolaño, at 50 (born 1953), from liver disease, Chile
- August 7 – F. T. Prince (born 1912), South African-English poet and academic
- September 3 – Alan Dugan (born 1923), American poet
- November 3 – Rasul Gamzatov, Avarian/Soviet/Russian poet, called the "People's poet of Dagestan" (aged 80)
- November 27 – Talal al-Rasheed, Saudi poet (aged 41?)
- December 12 – Fadwa Toukan, 86, Palestinian poet
- December 23 – John Newlove (born 1923), Canadian poet
- date not known – Heinz Piontek (born 1925), German
Read more about this topic: 2003 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)