Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 15 — Ursula Bethell, New Zealand
- January 22 — Else Lasker-Schuler, 75, poet
- February 16 – Yun Dong-ju, (born 1917), Korean poet, died in a Japanese prison (surname: Yoon; also spelled "Yoon Dong-joo" and "Yun Tong-ju")
- March 20 — Lord Alfred Douglas, poet and former lover of Oscar Wilde
- May 15 — Charles Williams, British writer and poet, and a member of the loose literary circle called the Inklings
- June 8 — Robert Desnos (born 1900), French surrealist poet and journalist, who was arrested by the Gestapo as a member of The Resistance, sent to Buchenwald in 1944, and died after he was liberated from the German concentration camp in Terezine, Czechoslovakia
- July 20 — Paul Valéry (born 1871), French philosopher, author and Symbolist poet
- August 26 — Franz Werfel (born 1890), Austrian-Bohemian novelist, playwright, and poet who wrote in German
- December 14 — Maurice Baring, versatile English man of letters: a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator, essayist, travel writer, and war correspondent
- Also:
- Swami Ananda Acharya (born 1881), Indian poet who wrote Indian poetry in English
- Capel Boake
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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:
“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)
“On almost the incendiary eve
Of deaths and entrances ...”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“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)