Events
- Jorge Luis Borges, writer and poet, returns to Buenos Aires after a period living in Europe.
- Mrs. C.A. Dawson-Scott founds PEN, an international Association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists, and Novelists with John Galsworthy, who would become International PEN's first President; first members included Joseph Conrad, George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells
- August 3 — Russian poet Nikolay Gumilyov's fate is sealed when he is arrested in the Soviet Union by the Cheka on charges of being a monarchist; on August 24 the Petrograd Cheka decrees execution of all 61 participants of the "Tagantsev Conspiracy", including Gumilyov. The exact dates and locations of their executions and burials are still unknown. He had divorced Russian poet Anna Akhmatova in 1918.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“All strange and terrible events are welcome,
But comforts we despise.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of people who live, as they can or must, the events that arrive; the other is of people who live, as they intend, the events they create.”
—Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)