Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
Marina Tsvetaeva
Born: October 8, 1892
Died: August 31, 1941 (aged 48)
Bio: Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. Her work is considered among some of the greatest in twentieth century Russian literature. She lived through and wrote of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Moscow famine that followed it.
Known for:
- Art in the light of conscience
- A captive spirit
- Earthly signs
- In the inmost hour of the soul