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:
“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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)