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
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“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
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“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
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...
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
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