The Dead Writers Round-Up: 8th-9th February

Jules Verne was born on 2/8/1828. “Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.” (A Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth to the Moon; Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Around the World in Eighty Days)
Kate Chopin was born on 2/8/1850. “A person can’t have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.” (Bayou Folk; A Night in Acadie; The Awakening)
Elizabeth Bishop was born on 2/8/1911. “If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I’m sure it’s a good one-and the same goes for paintings.” (North & South; Poems: North & South. A Cold Spring; The Complete Poems)
Iris Murdoch died on 2/8/1999. “We can only learn to love by loving.” (Under the Net; The Bell; The Sea, The Sea; The Green Knight)
Amy Lowell was born on 2/9/1874. “Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.” (A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass; Sword Blades and Poppy Seed; Legends; A Critical Fable)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky died on 2/9/1881. “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.” (Notes from Underground; Crime and Punishment; The Gambler; The Idiot; The Brothers Karamazov)
James Stephens was born on 2/9/1882. “Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.” (Irish Fairy Tales; Crock of Gold)
Paul Laurence Dunbar died on 2/9/1906. “With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.” (Majors and Minors; The Sport of the Gods; Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow)