Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 2 — George Henry Boker, 66, American poet, playwright, and diplomat
- J.H. Newman
- August 10 — John Boyle O'Reilly, 46, Irish-born poet, novelist and newspaper editor who was transported as a convict to Australia and escaped to the United States
Read more about this topic: 1890 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)