Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 15 – Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (born 1729), German poet
- March 17 – Johannes Ewald (born 1743), Danish national dramatist and poet
- Johann Nikolaus Götz (born 1721), German poet
- Richard Jago (born 1715), English clergyman and poet
- Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (born 1699), Indian, Urdu-language poet
- Samuel Gotthold Lange (born 1711), German
Read more about this topic: 1781 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)