1923 in Poetry - Deaths

Deaths

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  • January 9 – Katherine Mansfield, 34, New Zealand poet and prominent Modernist writer of short fiction
  • December 15 – Frank Morton, Australian poet and journalist
  • Also:
    • Maurice Henry Hewlett (born 1861), English historical novelist, poet and essayist
    • Sukumar Ray (born 1887), Bengali humorous poet, short-story writer and playwright

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    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)

    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)

    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)