Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
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