Deaths
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- April 27 – Nicholas Amhurst (born 1697), English poet and political writer
- July 9 – John Oldmixon (born 1673), English historian, pamphleteer, poet and critic
- July 19 – William Somervile (born 1675), English poet
- date not known – David French (poet) (born 1700), English Colonial American
- François-Joseph de Beaupoil de Sainte-Aulaire (born 1643), French poet and army officer
Read more about this topic: 1742 In Poetry
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)
“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)
“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)