In 1903 "Let Us Be Like the Sun. The Book of Symbols" (Будем как Солнце. Книга Символов) came out to great acclaim. Alexander Blok called it "unique in its unfathomable richness." In 1903 Balmont moved to the Baltic Sea shore to work on his next book, "Only Love" (Только любовь, 1903) which failed to surpass the success of the two previous books, but still added to the cult of Balmont. "Russia was passionately in love with him. Young men whispered his verses to their loved ones, schoolgirls scribbled them down to fill their notebooks," Teffi remembered. Established poets, like Mirra Lokhvitskaya, Valery Bryusov, Andrey Bely, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Maximilian Voloshin, and Sergey Gorodetsky, treated him (according to biographer Darya Makogonenko) as a "genius… destined to rise high above the world by submerging himself totally in the depths of his soul." In 1904 Balmont published his collected writings in prose as "Mountain Peaks" (Gornye vershiny).