- That afternoon, as the sun dries the land, Vladimir writes his first poem in Russian.
- Nabokov reflects that poetry is about where the individual person is in relation to the universe.
- A friend will later say that "while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time."
- That summer, Vladimir discovers that in order to be a poet, he must be able to think of several things all at once, conducting regular conversation with family friends while noticing a butterfly in the air and having some totally memory come over him. He puts it all in his poetry.