Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 1 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, daredevil
- April 15 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet
- April 19 – Sir Henry Newbolt, English author and poet
- April 21 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal", and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" ) 70, Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, who wrote in Persian and Urdu, and praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-i-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah"); his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
- June 26 – James Weldon Johnson African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his writing, including novels, poems, and collections of folklore
- October 5 – Chieko Takamura (born 1886), Japanese (surname: Takamura)
- October 27 – Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".
- December 7 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet, essayist and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.
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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)
“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)
“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)