Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 15 — Ursula Bethell, New Zealand
- January 22 — Else Lasker-Schuler, 75, poet
- February 16 – Yun Dong-ju, (born 1917), Korean poet, died in a Japanese prison (surname: Yoon; also spelled "Yoon Dong-joo" and "Yun Tong-ju")
- March 20 — Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde
- May 15 — Charles Williams, British writer and poet, and a member of the loose literary circle called the Inklings
- June 8 — Robert Desnos (born 1900), French surrealist poet and journalist, who was arrested by the Gestapo as a member of The Resistance, sent to Buchenwald in 1944, and died after he was liberated from the German concentration camp in Terezine, Czechoslovakia
- July 20 — Paul Valéry (born 1871), French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet
- August 26 — Franz Werfel (born 1890), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German
- December 14 — Maurice Baring, versatile English man of letters: a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
- Also:
- Swami Ananda Acharya (born 1881), Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English
- Capel Boake
Read more about this topic: 1945 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)