Quote of the day
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Valery Bryusov
Born: December 13, 1873
Died: October 9, 1924 (aged 50)
Bio: Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov was a Russian poet, prose writer, dramatist, translator, critic and historian. He was one of the principal members of the Russian Symbolist movement.
Known for:
- The Fiery Angel (1908)
- Republic of the southern cross
- Tertia Vigili
- Sem' Tsvetov Radugi
- Perepiska, 1904-1913







