Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 13 – Jean de la Fontaine (born 1621), French poet and fable writer
- April 17 – Juana Inés de la Cruz (born 1651 by some accounts, 1648 by others), self-taught Novohispana scholar, nun, poet, and writer
- Also:
- Mary Mollineux (born 1651), English
- Vaman Pandit (born 1608), Marathi scholar and poet of India
- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (born 1633), English statesman, writer, and politician
- Henry Vaughan (born 1621), English
Read more about this topic: 1695 In Poetry
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)
“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)
“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)