Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- July 13 – Yone Noguchi 野口米次郎 (born 1875), Japanese poet, fiction writer, essayist, and literary critic in both English and Japanese; father of the sculptor Isamu Noguchi
- December 19 – Duncan Campbell Scott, Canadian poet and writer
- Also:
- Anna Wickham, British poet
- Richard Le Gallienne, English writer and poet
Read more about this topic: 1947 In Poetry
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)
“You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes,
they waste their deaths on us.”
—C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)
“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)