Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Justus Möser (born 1720), German jurist, social theorist
- Gottfried August Bürger, German poet (born 1748)
- Susanna Blamire (born 1747), poet and writer of Scottish songs
- André Chenier (born 1762), French poet executed two days before the fall of Robespierre. A free spirit who spoke his mind, had pronounced sympathies with the aristocracy but adhered to no particular group, Chenier had attacked the Jacobins in the Journal de Paris, then became quiet and lived outside Paris during The Terror. He was arrested and held in Saint-Lazarre prison before his execution.
- Alison Cockburn (born 1713), Scots poet (née Rutherford)
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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)
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)