Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 25 – David Bates, 60, American poet
- June 24 – Adam Lindsay Gordon, 36, Australian poet and jockey
- June ?? – William Gilmore Simms, 64, Southern American poet, novelist and historian
- July 24 – Anders Abraham Grafström, 80, Swedish poet and historian
- November 24 – Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse (born 1846), French
- December 22 – Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (born 1836), Spanish Andalusian poet and short-story writer
- Also:
- James M. Whitfield
- Rasul Mir, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
Read more about this topic: 1870 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)
“This is the 184th Demonstration.
...
What we do is not beautiful
hurts no one makes no one desperate
we do not break the panes of safety glass
stretching between people on the street
and the deaths they hire.”
—Marge Piercy (b. 1936)
“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)