Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- March 1 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian poet, writer, novelist, dramatist, daredevil
- April 15 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet
- April 19 – Sir Henry Newbolt, English author and poet
- April 21 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal (aka "Allama Iqbal", and "Iqbal-e-Lahori" ) 70, Indian Muslim poet, philosopher and politician, who wrote in Persian and Urdu, and praised as Muffakir-e-Pakistan ("The Thinker of Pakistan"), Shair-i-Mashriq ("The Poet of the East"), and Hakeem-ul-Ummat ("The Sage of Ummah"); his birthday is annually commemorated in Pakistan as "Iqbal Day", a national holiday
- June 26 – James Weldon Johnson African-American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his writing, including novels, poems, and collections of folklore
- October 5 – Chieko Takamura (born 1886), Japanese (surname: Takamura)
- October 27 – Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets".
- December 7 – Osip Mandelstam, Russian poet, essayist and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.
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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)
“Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.”
—Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)
“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)