These are my sanctuaries: music that stirs, nature that heals, poetry that whispers, and solitude that understands.
— Marina Tsvetaeva, in a private letter to poet Boris Pasternak in the summer of 1926 found in "Letters: Summer 1926 — Letters: Summer 1926 — Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Rainer Maria Rilke. Edited/Translated by Yevgeny Pasternak. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1985.




















