Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 13 — John Philip Bourke (born 1860), Australian
- March 17 — Hiraide Shū 平出修 (born 1878), late Meiji period novelist, poet, and lawyer; represented defendant in the High Treason Incident; a co-founder of the literary journal Subaru
- July 6 — Delmira Agustini (born 1886), Uruguayan
- July 23 — Charlotte Forten Grimké, 76, African-American anti-slavery activist, poet, and teacher
- October 8 — Adelaide Crapsey 26 (born 1878, American poet
- October 10 — Ernst Stadler (born 1883), German poet killed in battle at Zandvoorde near Ypres in the early months of World War I.
- November 3 — Georg Trakl, 27, Austrian poet
- Also:
- Madison Cawein (born 1865), American
- Kerala Varma Valiya Koil Thampuran, also known as Kerala Varma (born 1845 in poetry), Indian, Malayalam-language poet and translator who had an equal facility in writing in English and Sanskrit
- K. C. Kesava Pillai (born 1868), Indian, Malayalam-language musician and poet
Read more about this topic: 1914 In Poetry
Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“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)