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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)