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Daily Quote
Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Poem of the Day
I Carry Your Heart with Me
E. E. Cummings
Beauty of Words
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Daily Quote
To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting. (Heraclitus)
Poem of the Day
鹧鸪天•元夕有所梦
姜夔
Beauty of Words
Genius Sacrificed for Failure
William N. Brown
Daily Quote
People always entrust their happiness to the future, which slips away unnoticed. (Albert Camus)
Poem of the Day
Without You
By Hermann Hesse
Beauty of Words
春燕归来
厉彦林
Daily Quote
The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. (Charlotte Brontë)
Poem of the Day
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas
Beauty of Words
醒心亭记
曾巩
Daily Quote
The days were short, the nights were long, and the cold was intense. The world seemed to have shrunk into a small, icy prison, where every step was an effort and every breath a struggle. (George Eliot)
Poem of the Day
A Prayer in Spring
Robert Frost
Beauty of Words
雪
梁实秋
Daily Quote
It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Poem of the Day
静女
Beauty of Words
Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice
Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King)
Poem of the Day
江雪
柳宗元
Beauty of Words
The Snow Queen in Seven Stories
Hans Christian Andersen
Daily Quote
The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. (Charlotte Brontë)
Poem of the Day
And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Dylan Thomas
Beauty of Words
醒心亭记
曾巩
Daily Quote
It always seems impossible until it's done. (Nelson Mandela)
Poem of the Day
Dreams – are well – but Waking’s better
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
The Snow Queen in Seven Stories
Hans Christian Andersen
Seventh Story
What Happened in The Snow Queen's Palace and What Came of it
Daily Quote
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. (Emily Bronte)
Poem of the Day
Nothing gold can stay
Robert Frost
Beauty of Words
The Snow Queen in Seven Stories - Sixth Story
Hans Christian Andersen
Daily Quote
Winter is the trial of the soul, a test of man's endurance. (George Santayana)
Poem of the Day
雪梅
卢梅坡
Beauty of Words
The Pond in Winter
Henry David Thoreau
Daily Quote
The desire for beauty is human folly. Wise people never wish to be beautiful, nor do they care about the beauty of others. (Anne Bronte)
Poem of the Day
智慧之歌
穆旦
Beauty of Words
The Snow Queen in Seven Stories - Fifth Story
Hans Christian Andersen
Daily Quote
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. (Martin Luther King)
Beauty of Words
The Snow Queen in Seven Stories - Fourth Story
Hans Christian Andersen
Daily Quote
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. (Charlotte Bronte)
Beauty of Words
The Snow Queen in Seven Stories
Hans Christian Andersen
Third Story
The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure
Daily Quote
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. (Mario Puzo)
Poem of the Day
短歌行
曹操
Beauty of Words
Matilda
Roald Dahl
Daily Quote
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. (William Shakespeare)
Poem of the Day
雪梅
卢梅坡
Beauty of Words
The Snow Queen
Hans Christian Andersen
Second Story
A Little Boy and a Little Girl
Daily Quote
Winter is the trial of the soul, a test of man's endurance. (George Santayana)
Poem of the Day
Winter Morning
Alexander Pushkin
Beauty of Words
The Snow Queen in Seven Stories
Hans Christian Andersen
Story the First
Which Has to Do with a Mirror and its Fragments
Daily Quote
Imagine all the people living life in peace. (John Lennon)
Poem of the Day
Afterwards
Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
The Pond in Winter
Henry David Thoreau
Daily Quote
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only on big thing – desire. (Willa Cather)
Poem of the Day
The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
Matilda
Roald Dahl
Daily Quote
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. (Mario Puzo)
Poem of the Day
On Winter's Margin
by Mary Oliver
Beauty of Words
The Old and the New Schoolmaster
Charles Lamb
Daily Quote
Today is the first blank page of a 365 page book. Write a good one. (Brad Paisley)
Poem of the Day
On Self-Knowledge
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty of Words
“今”
李大钊
Daily Quote
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. (Arthur Miller)
Poem of the Day
December Night
D. H. Lawrence
Beauty of Words
孩子
梁实秋
Daily Quote
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. (Plutarch)
Poem of the Day
留别王维
孟浩然
Beauty of Words
中年：当家的滋味
余秋雨
Daily Quote
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. (Agatha Christie)
Poem of the Day
明月皎夜光
《古诗十九首》
Beauty of Words
I Find Plenty of News in Old Books
Danny Heitman
Daily Quote
A man is useless who sits and thinks of what he cannot have. (Daniel Defoe)
Poem of the Day
The Window Pane
Rene Char
Beauty of Words
Mrs. Battle’s Opinions on Whist
Charles Lamb
Daily Quote
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only on big thing – desire. (Willa Cather)
Poem of the Day
短歌行
曹操
Beauty of Words
Matilda
Roald Dahl
Daily Quote
To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of Nature. (John Lubbock)
Poem of the Day
Beginning
By James Wright
Beauty of Words
The Philosopher
W.S. Maugham
Daily Quote
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. (Plutarch)
Poem of the Day
The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
Educated
Tara Westover
Daily Quote
In a society where appearances are everything, the only way to succeed is to be a hypocrite. (Stendhal)
Poem of the Day
留别王维
孟浩然
Beauty of Words
El Dorado
Robert Stevenson
Daily Quote
Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea. (Dylan Thomas)
Poem of the Day
Morning at the Window
T.S. Eliot
Beauty of Words
中年：当家的滋味
余秋雨
Daily Quote
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. (Jean de La Bruyère)
Poem of the Day
蛇
冯至
Beauty of Words
Birth of Sister
Tan Shih-hua
Daily Quote
There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil – a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome. (Jane Austen)
Poem of the Day
Beginning
By James Wright
Beauty of Words
Two Friends(2)
Guy de Maupassant
Daily Quote
To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal of Nature. (John Lubbock)
Poem of the Day
Maybe, Someday
Yannis Ritsos
Beauty of Words
Two Friends(1)
Guy de Maupassant
Daily Quote
The strength of the pack is the wolf, and the strength of the wolf is the pack. (Rudyard Kipling)
Poem of the Day
关山月
李白
Beauty of Words
The Philosopher (3)
W.S. Maugham
Daily Quote
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. (Charles Dickens)
Poem of the Day
赠别
舒婷
Beauty of Words
Will O’ the Mill
Robert Louis Steveson
Daily Quote
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity. (Jean de La Bruyère)
Poem of the Day
A Word to Husbands
Ogden Nash
Beauty of Words
The Philosopher (2)
By W. Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. (Andy Warhol)
Poem of the Day
蛇
冯至
Beauty of Words
The Philosopher (1)
By W. Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
A happy life consists in the tranquility of mind. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Poem of the Day
I Took One Draught of Life
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
Birth of Sister
Tan Shih-hua
Daily Quote
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.’ (Leo Tolstoy)
Poem of the Day
Musée des Beaux Arts
W.H. Auden
Beauty of Words
The Spectacles
By Edgar Allan Poe
Daily Quote
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. (Charles Dickens)
Poem of the Day
秋思
陆游
Beauty of Words
The Durable Satisfactions of Life
Charles W. Eliot
Daily Quote
Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements. (Henry David Thoreau)
Poem of the Day
赠别
舒婷
Beauty of Words
Will O’ the Mill
Robert Louis Steveson
Daily Quote
All the years that have passed have not dimmed my memory of that first glorious autumn. (Willa Cather)
Poem of the Day
秋凉晚步
杨万里
Beauty of Words
The Pleasures of Ignorance
By Robert Lynd
Daily Quote
One cannot think, love, sleep well if one has not dined well. (Virginia Woolf)
Poem of the Day
Poetry for Beginners
Gabeba Baderoon
Beauty of Words
欣赏自己
英培安
Daily Quote
A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.’ (Leo Tolstoy)
Poem of the Day
The Garret
By Ezra Pound
Beauty of Words
Samuel Johnson to Lord Chesterfield
Samuel Johnson
Daily Quote
What is tragedy? Tragedy is the collision of goods. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Poem of the Day
马诗
李贺
Beauty of Words
The Spectacles
By Edgar Allan Poe
Daily Quote
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. (Maya Angelou)
Poem of the Day
Musée des Beaux Arts
W.H. Auden
Beauty of Words
书与人
金圣华
Daily Quote
Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. (Emily Bronte)
Poem of the Day
Nothing Twice
Wislawa Szymborska
Beauty of Words
过戈壁
哲中
Daily Quote
It is a wise man’s duty to save himself for tomorrow, and not risk everything on one day. (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Poem of the Day
Soil
By R.S.Thomas
Beauty of Words
欣赏自己
英培安
Daily Quote
One cannot think, love, sleep well if one has not dined well. (Virginia Woolf)
Poem of the Day
寻隐者不遇
贾岛
Beauty of Words
The Alchemist
Paul Coelho
Daily Quote
Love goes toward love, as schoolboys from their books,
But love from love, toward school with heavy looks. (William Shakespeare)
Poem of the Day
Poetry for Beginners
Gabeba Baderoon
Beauty of Words
Charlie’s Rave
Jean Craighead George
Daily Quote
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. (Henry David Thoreau)
Poem of the Day
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Beauty of Words
A Craving for Adventure
Sidney Shapiro
Daily Quote
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. (Alexis Carrel)
Poem of the Day
赠花卿
杜甫
Beauty of Words
Oliver Twist
By Charles Dickens
Daily Quote
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. (Charles de Montesquieu)
Poem of the Day
The Truly Great
By Stephen Spender
Beauty of Words
趵突泉的欣赏
老舍
Daily Quote
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Poem of the Day
The Night
Sergei Yesenin
Beauty of Words
After the Funeral
Agatha Christie
Daily Quote
Time brought resignation, and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. (Emily Bronte)
Poem of the Day
Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred Tennyson
Beauty of Words
小桔灯
冰心
Daily Quote
不迁怒，不贰过。（《论语》）
Poem of the Day
Insomnia
Elizabeth Bishop
Beauty of Words
诗人
高长虹
Daily Quote
There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. (Louisa May Alcott)
Poem of the Day
Nothing Twice
Wislawa Szymborska
Beauty of Words
Of Beauty
Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Poem of the Day
The Beautiful Changes
By Richard Wilbur
Beauty of Words
憔悴的弦声
叶灵凤
Daily Quote
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones. (Benjamin Franklin)
Poem of the Day
清平乐·六盘山
毛泽东
Beauty of Words
After the Funeral
Agatha Christie
Daily Quote
In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you. (Steve Jobs)
Poem of the Day
The Night
Sergei Yesenin
Beauty of Words
过戈壁
哲中
Daily Quote
Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery. (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Poem of the Day
October
Louise Glück
Beauty of Words
蝉
许地山
Daily Quote
What governs the Englishman is his inner atmosphere, the weather in his soul. (George Santayana)
Poem of the Day
Images
Richard Aldington
Beauty of Words
最后一圈
何为
Daily Quote
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are going. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)
Poem of the Day
赠刘景文
苏轼
Beauty of Words
Of Expense
by Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
Do the best you can, until you know better. Then when you know better, do better. (Maya Angelou)
Poem of the Day
To a Butterfly
William Wordsworth
Beauty of Words
憔悴的弦声
叶灵凤
Daily Quote
It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. (Oscar Wilde)
Poem of the Day
The Beautiful Changes
By Richard Wilbur
Beauty of Words
Elizabeth Barrett to Robert Browning
Daily Quote
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. (Robert Frost)
Poem of the Day
Eternities
by G. K. Chesterton
Beauty of Words
秋
丰子恺
Daily Quote
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Poem of the Day
望洞庭
刘禹锡
Beauty of Words
最后一圈
何为
Daily Quote
What governs the Englishman is his inner atmosphere, the weather in his soul. (George Santayana)
Poem of the Day
Images
Richard Aldington
Beauty of Words
The Remains of the Day
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Daily Quote
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change. (Carl Rogers)
Poem of the Day
The Night
Sergei Yesenin
Beauty of Words
A Piece of Chalk (2)
G.K. Chesterton
Daily Quote
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. (Robert Frost)
Poem of the Day
Eternities
by G. K. Chesterton
Beauty of Words
秋
丰子恺
Daily Quote
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change. (Carl Rogers)
Poem of the Day
The Night
Sergei Yesenin
Beauty of Words
A Piece of Chalk (2)
G.K. Chesterton
Daily Quote
子曰：“不患无位，患所以立。 不患莫已知，求为可知也。”
Poem of the Day
The Grasshopper and the Cricket
John Keats
Beauty of Words
一支粉笔（上）
G.K.切斯特顿
Daily Quote
我爱我的祖国，爱我的人民，离开了它，离开了他们，我就无法生存，更无法写作。（巴金）
Poem of the Day
祖国啊，我亲爱的祖国
舒婷
Beauty of Words
离别
郑振铎
Daily Quote
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. (Paulo Coelho)
Poem of the Day
新秋
卞之琳
Beauty of Words
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett
Daily Quote
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. (Robert Frost)
Poem of the Day
赠白马王彪（其四）
曹植
Beauty of Words
The Coming of the King
Laura E. Richards
Daily Quote
山河据形胜，天地生豪酋。（孟浩然）
Poem of the Day
Eternities
by G. K. Chesterton
Beauty of Words
The Art of the Essayist
Arthur Christopher Benson
Daily Quote
Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes,
And when in act they cease,
In prospect rise. (Alexander Pope)
Poem of the Day
In Heraclitus’ River
Wisława Szymborska
Beauty of Words
秋
丰子恺
Daily Quote
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. (Alexander Pope)
Poem of the Day
Going and Staying
by Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
The Last Night of the World
Ray Bradbury
Daily Quote
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. (Robert Frost)
Poem of the Day
新秋
卞之琳
Beauty of Words
Mary Wollstonecraft (2)
Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused. (Paulo Coelho)
Beauty of Words
Mary Wollstonecraft (1)
Virginia Woolf
野望
王绩
Ode to Autumn
John Keats
秋来之后
席慕容
Autumn Evening
Robinson Jeffers
十五夜望月
王建
望月怀远
张九龄
Daily Quote
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. (Alexander Pope)
Poem of the Day
The Best Time of the Day
Raymond Carver
Beauty of Words
Of Fortune
by Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. (Victor Hugo)
Poem of the Day
Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
骆驼
梁实秋
Daily Quote
Education is an ornament to the rich, and a refuge for the poor. (Aristotle)
Poem of the Day
“Nature” is What We See
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
Impressions of America
Oscar Wilde
Daily Quote
The choice of books, like that of friends, is a serious duty. (John Lubbock)
Poem of the Day
"I loved you first: but afterwards your love"
By Christina Rossetti
Beauty of Words
Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett
Daily Quote
Who knows if the moon’s a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky – filled with pretty people? (E.E. Cummings)
Poem of the Day
Faces
By Khalil Gibran
Beauty of Words
The Last Night of the World
Ray Bradbury
Daily Quote
He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. (Alexander Pope)
Poem of the Day
On a Faded Violet
P.B. Shelley
Beauty of Words
Love
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daily Quote
I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes. (C. S. Lewis)
Poem of the Day
The Best Time of the Day
Raymond Carver
Beauty of Words
西游记（第一章节选）
吴承恩
Daily Quote
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. (Charles Darwin)
Poem of the Day
Going and Staying
by Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
Of Fortune
by Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. (William Butler Yeats)
Poem of the Day
咏怀•其七
阮籍
Beauty of Words
The Sun Also Rises (Excerpt)
By Ernest Hemingway
Daily Quote
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Poem of the Day
Ah! Sun-flower
By William Blake
Beauty of Words
The Last Night of the World
Ray Bradbury
Daily Quote
Who knows if the moon’s a balloon, coming out of a keen city in the sky – filled with pretty people? (E.E. Cummings)
Poem of the Day
Night on the Prairies
Walt Whitman
Beauty of Words
至小丘西小石潭记
柳宗元
Daily Quote
Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Poem of the Day
Faces
By Khalil Gibran
Beauty of Words
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Daily Quote
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn’t find the guts to do. (Seth Godin)
Poem of the Day
Youth Calls to Age
Dylan Thomas
Beauty of Words
匆匆
朱自清
Daily Quote
Thoughts feeds itself with its own words and grows. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
My Former Life
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Beauty of Words
The Sun Also Rises (Excerpt)
By Ernest Hemingway
Daily Quote
Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of Unpremeditated art. (P.B. Shelley)
Poem of the Day
咏怀·其七
阮籍
Beauty of Words
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Daily Quote
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking. (William Butler Yeats)
Poem of the Day
Summer
by Georg Trakl
Beauty of Words
赤壁赋
苏轼
Daily Quote
“Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.” “You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing.” (Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White)
Poem of the Day
蝶恋花•庭院深深深几许
欧阳修
Beauty of Words
The Long Shadow
John Hampson
Daily Quote
山光忽西落，池月渐东上。（孟浩然）
Poem of the Day
Youth Calls to Age
Dylan Thomas
Beauty of Words
German Harry (2)
by W. Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
Your biggest failure is the thing you dreamed of contributing but didn’t find the guts to do. (Seth Godin)
Poem of the Day
山行
戴望舒
Beauty of Words
German Harry (1)
by W. Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
处朋友，务相下，则得益，相上则损。（王阳明）
Poem of the Day
Leisure
William Henry Davies
Beauty of Words
匆匆
朱自清
Daily Quote
I will take fate by the throat, never let fate overwhelmed. (Ludwig Beethoven)
Poem of the Day
赠从弟三首•其二
刘桢
Beauty of Words
The Field Where the Satyrs Danced
Lord Dunsany
Daily Quote
If our dreams come true, we are almost afraid to believe it; for that is the best of all good fortune, and nothing better can happen to any of us. (Willa Cather)
Poem of the Day
蝶恋花•庭院深深深几许
欧阳修
Beauty of Words
Salvation
Langston Hughes
Daily Quote
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. (Little Women by Louisa May Alcott)
Poem of the Day
Autumn
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
The Long Shadow
John Hampson
Daily Quote
“Why did you do all this for me?” he asked. “I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.” “You have been my friend,” replied Charlotte. “That in itself is a tremendous thing.” (Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White)
Poem of the Day
A Summer Evening Churchyard
Poem of the Day
A Summer Evening Churchyard
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty of Words
The Delights of Books
Sir John Lubbock
Daily Quote
There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Poem of the Day
赠从弟三首•其二
刘桢
Beauty of Words
大海在我瞳孔里
江南
Daily Quote
Deeds are better things than words are, actions mightier than boastings! (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Poem of the Day
The Window Pane
Martha Myers
Beauty of Words
The Field Where the Satyrs Danced
Lord Dunsany
Daily Quote
I will take fate by the throat, never let fate overwhelmed. (Ludwig Beethoven)
Poem of the Day
A Ditty
Philip Sidney
Beauty of Words
山水
李广田
Daily Quote
It is the time that the spirit of fun was introduced into furniture and into fabrics. We have suffered too long from the dull and the stupidly serious. (Roger Fry)
Poem of the Day
Pebbles
Frank Dempster Sherman
Beauty of Words
雨
郁达夫
The Romantic in the Rain
G.K. Chesterton
四年一度的奥林匹克运动会，今年来到欧洲的法国，全世界的目光也都投向这里。今天的《美文阅读》节目邀请诗人树才，为我们介绍一下法国的诗歌传统，从中领略法国诗歌的独有魅力，以及法国诗人与中国诗歌之间千丝万缕的联系。
Daily Quote
Lines and colors combined in a particular way, certain forms and relations of forms, stir our aesthetic emotions. (Clive Bell)
Poem of the Day
The Way through the Woods
Rudyard Kipling
Beauty of Words
石榴花
周领顺
Daily Quote
Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry. (George Braque)\
Poem of the Day
Rock Me to Sleep
By Elizabeth Akers Allen
Beauty of Words
Edgar Allan Poe to George Eveleth
Edgar Allan Poe
Daily Quote
With merit, and yet poetically, man dwells on this earth. (Friedrich Holderlin)
Poem of the Day
临江仙
杨慎
Beauty of Words
泪与笑
梁遇春
Daily Quote
It is the time that the spirit of fun was introduced into furniture and into fabrics. We have suffered too long from the dull and the stupidly serious. (Roger Fry)
Poem of the Day
In Memory Of W.B. Yeats
W.H. Auden
Beauty of Words
蟋蟀
吴冠中
Daily Quote
In spite of all the talk about Nature that “Natural” was the last thing in this world. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Poem of the Day
Pebbles
Frank Dempster Sherman
Beauty of Words
西欧的夏天
余光中
Daily Quote
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. (Charlie Chaplin)
Poem of the Day
The Rain
Jorge Luis Borges
Beauty of Words
雨
郁达夫
The Romantic in the Rain
G.K. Chesterton
Daily Quote
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. (Wilma Rudolph)
Poem of the Day
Love Songs in Age
Philip Larkin
Beauty of Words
“今”
李大钊
Daily Quote
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. (W.S. Maugham)
Poem of the Day
Seven Times Have I Despised My Soul
Kahlil Gibran
Beauty of Words
泪与笑
梁遇春
Daily Quote
With merit, and yet poetically, man dwells on this earth. (Friedrich Holderlin)
Poem of the Day
秘魔崖月夜
胡适
Out for a Walk
Friedrich Holderlin
Beauty of Words
谈生命
冰心
Daily Quote
No one can do well in the midst of constant misfortune, pain and worry. (David Copperfield)
Poem of the Day
临江仙
杨慎
Beauty of Words
Old Age
William Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
A little learning is a dangerous thing. (Alexander Pope)
Poem of the Day
The Return of the Rivers
Richard Brautigan
Beauty of Words
囚绿记
陆蠡
Daily Quote
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. (Wilma Rudolph)
Poem of the Day
Star
Derek Walcott
Beauty of the Words
三体
刘慈欣
Daily Quote
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. (Vincent van Gogh)
Poem of the Day
Love Songs in Age
Philip Larkin
Beauty of Words
July
Alice Meynell
Daily Quote
Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence. (Friedrich Engels)
Poem of the Day
青松
陈毅
Beauty of Words
“今”
李大钊
Daily Quote
Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
The Garden
Azra Pound
Beauty of Words
When the Moon Follows Me
Mary E. Potter
Daily Quote
The life so short, the craft so long to learn. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Poem of the Day
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
囚绿记
陆蠡
Daily Quote
Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape... (Harper Lee)
Poem of the Day
The Return of the Rivers
Richard Brautigan
Beauty of Words
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
Daily Quote
A little learning is a dangerous thing. (Alexander Pope)
Poem of the Day
苦昼短
李贺
Beauty of Words
An apology for idlers
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Daily Quote
Secret, quiet movement often awakens a sleeper when a deliberate normal action does not. (John Steinbeck)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 102
William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
Pride and Prejudice – Chapter One
By Jane Austen
Daily Quote
Do not seat your love upon a precipice because it is high. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
To My Lute
Friedrich Rochlitz
Beauty of Words
箱子岩（节选）
沈从文
Daily Quote
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude. (William James)
Poem of the Day
夜宿山寺
李白
Beauty of Words
The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy (Excerpt)
By Michael McCarthy
Daily Quote
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. (Oscar Wilde)
Poem of the Day
The Garden
Azra Pound
Beauty of Words
When the Moon Follows Me
Mary E. Potter
Daily Quote
In early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. (John Steinbeck)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 102
William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
背影
朱自清
Daily Quote
Secret, quiet movement often awakens a sleeper when a deliberate normal action does not. (John Steinbeck)
Poem of the Day
Night
By William Blake
Beauty of Words
《激流》总序
巴金
Daily Quote
All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. (Havelock Ellis)
Poem of the Day
访戴天山道士不遇
李白
Beauty of Words
One More Thing
By Raymond Carver
中国的传统节日端午节，也是纪念屈原的节日。这位爱国诗人，用一生实践自己保家卫国的向往，给了无数仁人志士以品格与行为的示范，而他的诗歌源远流长，为后代留下了诸多感怀和沉思。在端午节感怀屈原，也让我们再次有体会去感悟中国古典诗歌的浪漫与力量，这穿越千年奔腾而来的文学传统和艺术瑰宝，给世世代代中国人以情感寄托和精神家园。
Daily Quote
A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom. (David Copperfield)
Poem of the Day
The Barren Moors
William Ellery Channing
Beauty of Words
桃花源里的人家——徽州印象
华莎
Daily Quote
大人者，不失其赤子之心者也。（《孟子》）
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 102
William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
背影
朱自清
Daily Quote
In early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. (John Steinbeck)
Poem of the Day
Summer Night, Riverside
By Sara Teasdale
Beauty of Words
Pride and Prejudice – Chapter One
By Jane Austen
Daily Quote
The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life. (Muhammad Ali)
Poem of the Day
Beginning
Rupert Brooke
Beauty of Words
Letters from A Cat
Helen Hunt Jackson
Daily Quote
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. (A. A. Milne)
Poem of the Day
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
Beauty of Words
书
朱湘
Daily Quote
Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. (Roald Dahl)
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. (C.S. Lewis)
Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch. (Hans Christian Andersen)
Beauty of Words
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (excerpt)
Roald Dahl
The Chronicles of Narnia – Turkish Delight
By C.S. Lewis
Little Ida’s Flowers
By Hans Christian Andersen
Gitanjali—39
By Rabindranath Tagore
The Flower-School
Rabindranath Tagore
Clouds and Waves
Rabindranath Tagore
I Asked Nothing
Rabindranath Tagore
Daily Quote
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an extant man. (Francis Bacon)
Poem of the Day
Song on May Morning
John Milton
Beauty of Words
桃花源里的人家——徽州印象
华莎
Daily Quote
A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom. (David Copperfield)
Poem of the Day
Say over again, and yet once over again
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beauty of Words
The Tomb of Keats
Oscar Wilde
Daily Quote
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. (Leonard Bernstein)
Poem of the Day
The Weary Blues
Langston Hughes
Beauty of Words
A Life in a Violin Case
Alexander Bloch
Daily Quote
士君子持身不可轻，轻则物能扰我，而无悠闲镇定之趣；用意不可重，重则我为物泥，而无潇洒活泼之机。（《菜根谭》）
Poem of the Day
May Morning
James Wright
Beauty of Words
书
朱湘
Daily Quote
If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. (A. A. Milne)
Poem of the Day
卜算子
李之仪
Shall I Your Beauties with the Moon Compare
By Pierre De Ronsard
Beauty of Words
Of Love
Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
I never dared be radical when young, for fear it would make me conservative when old. (Robert Frost)
Poem of the Day
Evening Harmony
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Beauty of Words
妈妈的手
高莽
Daily Quote
A loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom. (David Copperfield)
Poem of the Day
The Barren Moors
William Ellery Channing
Beauty of Words
The Green Door
O. Henry
Daily Quote
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy. (Little Women)
Poem of the Day
Say over again, and yet once over again,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beauty of Words
白果树
周建人
Daily Quote
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives. (Alexander Pope)
Poem of the Day
长歌行
Beauty of Words
The Tomb of Keats
Oscar Wilde
Daily Quote
He who fears suffering, suffers already of what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne)
Poem of the Day
Going
Philip Larkin
Beauty of Words
我与地坛（第二节）
史铁生
Gretchen on the spinning wheel
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Lyre Man
Wilhelm Müller
Infant Joy
William Blake
Music when Soft Voices Die
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Dream Within A Dream
by Edgar Allan Poe
To Music
Rainer Maria Rilke
On Wing of Songs
By Heinrich Heine
Wild Rose
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The trout
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
Daily Quote
Principles which could subverted by feeling in one direction were liable to the same catastrophe in another. (Thomas Hardy)
Poem of the Day
Spring Is Like A Perhaps Hand
E. E. Cummings
Beauty of Words
妈妈的手
高莽
Daily Quote
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. (Paulo Coelho)
Poem of the Day
Evening Harmony
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Feelings
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Beauty of Words
路畔的蔷薇
郭沫若
梨花
许地山
Daily Quote
Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. (Euripides)
Poem of the Day
My Lost Youth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beauty of Words
Advice to Youth
Mark Twain
Daily Quote
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. (Dmitri Mendeleev)
Poem of the Day
悯农其二
李绅
Beauty of Words
愚公移山
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Daily Quote
What we call the beginning is often the end, and to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. (T.S. Eliot)
Poem of the Day
Grass
By Carl Sandburg
Beauty of Words
我与地坛（第二节）
史铁生
Poem of the Day
To Music
Rainer Maria Rilke
Beauty of Words
My Father's Music
Wayne Kalyn
Daily Quote
It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. (Paulo Coelho)
Poem of the Day
Going
Philip Larkin
Beauty of Words
寻找女人与狗
王蒙
Daily Quote
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. (Roald Dahl)
Poem of the Day
凤栖梧•伫倚危楼风细细
柳永
Beauty of Words
Introduction to "A Brief History of Time"
By Karl Sagan
Daily Quote
He who fears suffering, suffers already of what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne)
Poem of the Day
Evening Harmony
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Feelings
Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud
Beauty of Words
A Thoroughly Negative Place
Albert Camus
Daily Quote
A huge cherry-tree grow outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen. (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Poem of the Day
Night Sky
Ronald Stuart Thomas
Beauty of Words
梨花
许地山
Daily Quote
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. (George Eliot)
Poem of the Day
A Girl
Ezra Pound
Beauty of Words
The Rose
Logan Pearsall Smith
Daily Quote
I never dared be radical when young, for fear it would make me conservative when old. (Robert Frost)
Poem of the Day
春江花月夜
张若虚
Beauty of Words
My Travelling in Europe
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poem of the Day
To Music
Rainer Maria Rilke
Beauty of Words
My Father's Music
Wayne Kalyn
Daily Quote
It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live. (Victor Hugo)
Poem of the Day
送别
王之涣
Beauty of Words
The Green Pasture
Aldo Leopold
Daily Quote
Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. (Jim Carrey)
Poem of the Day
The First Jasmines
By Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words
路畔的蔷薇
郭沫若
梨花
许地山
Daily Quote
A huge cherry-tree grow outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen. (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Poem of the Day
Night Sky
Ronald Stuart Thomas
Beauty of Words
A Study in Scarlet (Excerpt)
By Conan Doyle
Daily Quote
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)
Poem of the Day
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
Jane Hirshifield
Beauty of Words
爱美
袁昌英
Daily Quote
You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. (Margaret Atwood)
Poem of the Day
Superior
Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words
To Somebody
(1891)
Mark Twain
Daily Quote
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Poem of the Day
江城子·十年生死
苏轼
离思五首其四
元稹（秦大川 译）
沈园二首
陆游
浣溪沙•谁念西风独自凉
纳兰性德
Beauty of Words
Charles Dickens to His Wife
Charles Dickens
Daily Quote
Because the road is rough and long, shall we despise the skylark’s song? (Anne Bronte)
Poem of the Day
送别
王之涣
Beauty of Words
The Sensible Thing (2)
Scott Fitzgerald
Daily Quote
It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live. (Victor Hugo)
Poem of the Day
旅途中
林徽因
Beauty of Words
The Sensible Thing (1)
Scott Fitzgerald
Daily Quote
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill? (John Steinbeck)
Poem of the Day
London, 1802
By William Wordsworth
Beauty of Words
春
丰子恺
Daily Quote
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Poem of the Day
Superior
Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words
绿
朱自清
Daily Quote
You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. (Margaret Atwood)
Poem of the Day
玉楼春•春恨
晏殊
Beauty of Words
The Green Pasture
Aldo Leopold
Daily Quote
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. (Mary Shelley)
Poem of the Day
To a Star
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty of Words
To Somebody
(1891)
Mark Twain
Daily Quote
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Poem of the Day
木兰花令•拟古决绝词
纳兰性德
Beauty of Words
Letters from A Cat
Helen Hunt Jackson
Daily Quote
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Poem of the Day
London, 1802
By William Wordsworth
London
William Blake
Beauty of Words
刹那的印象
谢冰莹
Daily Quote
A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill? (John Steinbeck)
Poem of the Day
Just before dawn
Yves Bonnefoy
Beauty of Words
绿衣姑娘
吴冠中
Daily Quote
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Beauty of Words
Mr. Know-All (2)
W.S. Maugham
Daily Quote
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. (Alexander Pope)
Poem of the Day
木兰花令•拟古决绝词
纳兰性德
Beauty of Words
Mr. Know-All (1)
W.S. Maugham
Daily Quote
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
Poem of the Day
渔翁
柳宗元
Beauty of Words
To Philip Stanhope
Earl of Chesterfield
Daily Quote
Life indeed must be measured by thought and action, not by time. (John Lubbock)
Poem of the Day
Song of Open Road
Walt Whitman
Beauty of Words
一座长桥
金圣华
Daily Quote
What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Poem of the Day
A Letter from Home
Mary Oliver
Beauty of Words
枉凝眉；葬花吟；黛玉容貌；王熙凤容貌；聪明累；晴雯；终身误
Daily Quote
The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life. (Muhammad Ali)
Poem of the Day
Beginning
Rupert Brooke
Beauty of Words
Letters from A Cat
Helen Hunt Jackson
Daily Quote
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. (Roald Dahl)
Poem of the Day
Over Hill, over Dale
by William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
西游记（第一章节选）
吴承恩
Daily Quote
The best of prophets of the future is the past. (George Gordon Byron)
Poem of the Day
将进酒
李白
Beauty of Words
Buds and Bird-voices
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Daily Quote
人生代代无穷已，江月年年只相似。（张若虚）
Poem of the Day
Song of Open Road
Walt Whitman
Beauty of Words
Spring
Annette Broadrick
Daily Quote
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly (Paulo Coelho)
Poem of the Day
Lullaby
W. H. Auden
Beauty of Words
一座长桥
金圣华
Daily Quote
Life indeed must be measured by thought and action, not by time. (John Lubbock)
Poem of the Day
旅夜书怀
杜甫
Beauty of Words
How It Strikes a Contemporary
Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
Life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. (Oscar Wilde)
Poem of the Day
Snow-Flakes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beauty of Words
The Roots of My Ambition (Excerpt)
Russell Baker
Daily Quote
The best of prophets of the future is the past. (George Gordon Byron)
Poem of the Day
别董大
高适
Beauty of Words
Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits (Excerpt)
By John D. Barrow
Daily Quote
The very best thing in all this world that can befall a man is to be born lucky. (Mark Twain)
Poem of the Day
将进酒
李白
Beauty of Words
A Walker in the City
Alfred Kazin
Daily Quote
If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. (J.K. Rowling)
Poem of the Day
苔
袁枚
Beauty of Words
Defoe
Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. (William Blake)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
语言与社会身份
林巍
Daily Quote
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. (Carl Jung)
Poem of the Day
‘Tis Customary as We Part
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
Letters to A Young Poet – the First Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Daily Quote
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it is time for home. (Edith Sitwell)
Poem of the Day
Winter Memories
Henry David Thoreau
Beauty of Words
宴之趣（下）
郑振铎
Daily Quote
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now. (Arthur Clarke)
Poem of the Day
Into My Own
by Robert Frost
Beauty of Words
宴之趣（上）
郑振铎
Daily Quote
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Epicurus)
Poem of the Day
To Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty of Words
济南的冬天
老舍
Daily Quote
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. (John Burroughs)
Poem of the Day
清明
黄庭坚
出塞
王昌龄
雁门太守行
李贺
Beauty of Words
Buds and Bird-voices
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Daily Quote
凡明不得，行不去，须反在自心上体当。（王阳明）
Poem of the Day
Valentine
Carol Ann Duffy
Beauty of Words
Francis Bacon (2)
By Bertrand Russell
Daily Quote
人生各有志，终不为此移。（王粲）
Poem of the Day
Spring Pools
Robert Frost
Beauty of Words
Francis Bacon (1)
By Bertrand Russell
Daily Quote
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Poem of the Day
Spring
William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
春之怀古
张晓风
Daily Quote
Life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. (Oscar Wilde)
Poem of the Day
To Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty of Words
Friedrich Nietzsche to Richard Wagner
Daily Quote
Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. (Henry David Thoreau)
Poem of the Day
Snow-Flakes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beauty of Words
济南的冬天
老舍
Daily Quote
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Epicurus)
Poem of the Day
送友人
李白
Beauty of Words
The Roots of My Ambition (Excerpt)
Russell Baker
Daily Quote
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. (Pele)
Poem of the Day
The Morning Moon
Derek Walcott
Beauty of Words
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Daily Quote
While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. (Publilius Syrus)
Poem of the Day
思念
汪国真
Beauty of Words
Of Innovation
Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. (C. S. Lewis)
Poem of the Day
当我死时
余光中
Beauty of Words
Girl (2)
O. Henry
Daily Quote
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. (John Milton)
Poem of the Day
临江仙
晏几道
Beauty of Words
Girl
O. Henry
Daily Quote
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now. (Arthur Clarke)
Poem of the Day
Winter Memories
Henry David Thoreau
Beauty of Words
落叶
徐志摩
Daily Quote
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed. (James Boswell)
Poem of the Day
郑风•有女同车
Beauty of Words
What Goes Around, Comes Around
Daily Quote
Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. (Pele)
Poem of the Day
Sweet Afton
Robert Burns
Beauty of Words
睡与梦（下）
吴祖光
Daily Quote
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. (John Burroughs)
Poem of the Day
The Morning Moon
Derek Walcott
Beauty of Words
睡与梦（上）
吴祖光
Daily Quote
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. (Stephen Chobsky)
Poem of the Day
For A New Beginning
By John O’Donohue
Beauty of Words
语言与社会身份
林巍
Daily Quote
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. (Jules Verne)
Poem of the Day
On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
George Gordon Byron
Beauty of Words
落叶
徐志摩
Daily Quote
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it is time for home. (Edith Sitwell)
Poem of the Day
Winter Memories
Henry David Thoreau
Beauty of Words
宴之趣（下）
郑振铎
Daily Quote
Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now. (Arthur Clarke)
Poem of the Day
Into My Own
by Robert Frost
Beauty of Words
宴之趣（上）
郑振铎
Daily Quote
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. (Nathaniel Branden)
Poem of the Day
Song to Celia
Ben Jonson
Beauty of Words
鹰之歌
丽尼
Daily Quote
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. (William Blake)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow
William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
语言与社会身份
林巍
Daily Quote
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. (William Hazlitt)
Poem of the Day
归园田居（其一）
陶渊明
Beauty of Words
The Balance of Nature
By Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
Daily Quote
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. (Hermann Hesse)
Poem of the Day
For A New Beginning
By John O’Donohue
相信未来
食指
Beauty of Words
生命从八十岁开始
冰心
Daily Quote
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. (Carl Jung)
Poem of the Day
Authorship
by Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words
孩子
梁实秋
Daily Quote
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. (Stephen Chobsky)
Poem of the Day
Pray to What Earth Does This Sweet Cold Belong
Henry David Thoreau
Beauty of Words
鹰之歌
丽尼
Daily Quote
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds. (Jacque Fresco)
Poem of the Day
Song to Celia
Ben Jonson
Beauty of Words
孔乙己（下）
鲁迅
Daily Quote
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. (Nathaniel Branden)
Poem of the Day
To the Evening Star
Bion
Beauty of Words
孔乙己（上）
鲁迅
Daily Quote
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. (David Brinkley)
Poem of the Day
Brahma
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
Jorge Luis Borges
Beauty of Words
I Find Plenty of News in Old Books
Danny Heitman
Daily Quote
You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return. (Arthur Miller)
Poem of the Day
December Night
D. H. Lawrence
Beauty of Words
孩子
梁实秋
Daily Quote
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. (Carl Jung)
Poem of the Day
‘Tis Customary as We Part
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
Letters to A Young Poet – the First Letter
Rainer Maria Rilke
Daily Quote
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. (Thornton Wilder)
Poem of the Day
Authorship
by Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words
翻译的艺术
萧乾
Daily Quote
圣人不贵尺之璧而重寸之阴，时难得而易失也。（《淮南子•原道训》）
Poem of the Day
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
Beauty of Words
The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
Daily Quote
Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them. (Agatha Christie)
Poem of the Day
明月皎夜光
Beauty of Words
I Find Plenty of News in Old Books
Danny Heitman
Daily Quote
A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. (David Brinkley)
Poem of the Day
童年
穆旦
Beauty of Words
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Daily Quote
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. (Joseph Conrad)
Poem of the Day
Brahma
By Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emerson
Jorge Luis Borges
Beauty of Words
巷
柯灵
Daily Quote
Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. (Gustave Flaubert)
Poem of the Day
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Beauty of Words
In the Council of Animals, the Fate of Humanity Comes down to a Vote
Lydia Millet
Daily Quote
圣人不贵尺之璧而重寸之阴，时难得而易失也。（《淮南子·原道训》）
Poem of the Day
Song of the Highest Tower
Arthur Rimbaud
Beauty of Words
The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
Daily Quote
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. (Stefan Zweig)
Poem of the Day
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
Beauty of Words
秋雨的诉苦
王鲁彦
Daily Quote
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. (Kahlil Gibran)
Poem of the Day
Song
Emily Bronte
Beauty of Words
Halftime
Bob Buford
Daily Quote
It is men’s duty to be courageous enough to seek for truth. (Nicolaus Copernicus)
Poem of the Day
I taste a liquor never brewed
Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
The Durable Satisfactions of Life
Charles W. Eliot
Daily Quote
A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (Edmond de Goncourt)
Poem of the Day
初冬书怀
朱淑真
Beauty of Words
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Daily Quote
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. (Leo Tolstoy)
Poem of the Day
西湖秋泛
刘大白
Beauty of Words
Mystery of the White Gardenia
Marsha Arons
Daily Quote
孔子曰：益者三友，损者三友。友直，友谅，友多闻，益矣。友便辟，友善柔，友便佞，损矣。
Poem of the Day
This Is Just To Say
William Carlos Williams
Beauty of Words
Dorothy Wordsworth
Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell)
Poem of the Day
Tear
by Arthur Rimbaud
Beauty of Words
A Craving for Adventure
Sidney Shapiro
Daily Quote
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. (William Somerset Maugham)
Poem of the Day
天净沙•秋思
马致远
Beauty of Words
Morality and the Novel (2)
D.H. Lawrence
Daily Quote
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. (Dion Boucicault)
Poem of the Day
Night Song at Amalfi
Sara Teasdale
Beauty of Words
Morality and the Novel (1)
D.H. Lawrence
Daily Quote
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. (Albert Einstein)
Poem of the Day
Loveliest of Trees
Alfred Edward Housman
Beauty of Words
绿河行
靳以
Daily Quote
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. (Alexis Carrel)
Poem of the Day
The Truly Great
By Stephen Spender
Beauty of Words
趵突泉的欣赏
老舍
Daily Quote
Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. (Gustave Flaubert)
Poem of the Day
Tear
by Arthur Rimbaud
Beauty of Words
Ideas in England
Matthew Arnold
Daily Quote
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. (Bertrand Russell)
Poem of the Day
送别
王维
Beauty of Words
In the Council of Animals, the Fate of Humanity Comes down to a Vote
Lydia Millet
Daily Quote
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. (Henry David Thoreau)
Poem of the Day
Maid of Athens, Ere We Part
by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Beauty of Words
A Craving for Adventure
Sidney Shapiro
Daily Quote
子曰：“不患无位，患所以立。 不患莫已知，求为可知也。”
Poem of the Day
The Night
Sergei Yesenin
Beauty of Words
Hate (Excerpt)
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Daily Quote
The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. (Alexis Carrel)
Poem of the Day
赠花卿
杜甫
Beauty of Words
Oliver Twist
By Charles Dickens
Daily Quote
We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school-masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. (Charles de Montesquieu)
Poem of the Day
The Truly Great
By Stephen Spender
Beauty of Words
趵突泉的欣赏
老舍
Daily Quote
I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. (Anne Frank)
Poem of the Day
青溪
王维
Beauty of Words
Modern Fiction
Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. (Joseph Campbell)
Poem of the Day
Shut out that moon
Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
生命需要等待
詹克明
Daily Quote
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. (Thucydides)
Poem of the Day
采桑子•画船载酒西湖好
欧阳修
Beauty of Words
Hate (Excerpt)
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Daily Quote
The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn …and change. (Carl Rogers)
Poem of the Day
The Night
Sergei Yesenin
Beauty of Words
A Piece of Chalk (2)
G.K. Chesterton
Daily Quote
子曰：“不患无位，患所以立。 不患莫已知，求为可知也。”
Poem of the Day
The Grasshopper and the Cricket
John Keats
Beauty of Words
A Piece of Chalk (1)
G.K. Chesterton
Daily Quote
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. (Joseph Campbell)
Poem of the Day
Three Autumns
Anna Akhmatova
Beauty of Words
生命需要等待
詹克明
Daily Quote
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. (Truman Capote)
Poem of the Day
Shut out that moon
Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
The Flowers You Left Us
Annelise Jolley
Daily Quote
The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. (Walt Whitman)
Poem of the Day
立秋雨院中有作
杜甫
Beauty of Words
Impressions of America
Oscar Wilde
Daily Quote
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly. (Claude Monet)
The Birch Tree
Sergei Yesenin
Beauty of Words
将离
叶圣陶
Daily Quote
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. (Socrates)
Poem of the Day
The Other Side of a Mirror
by Mary Coleridge
Beauty of Words
Dorothy Osborne’s Letters
Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway. (Allen Ginsberg)
Poem of the Day
Hymn of Pan
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty of Words
秋雨·山林
陈心华
Daily Quote
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Poem of the Day
Sorrow
Alfred de Musset
Beauty of Words
赤壁赋
苏轼
Daily Quote
The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it. (Walt Whitman)
Poem of the Day
青哥儿•八月
马致远
Beauty of Words
A Clean, Well-lighted Place (2)
Ernest Hemingway
Daily Quote
Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it. (Khalil Gibran)
Poem of the Day
立秋雨院中有作
杜甫
Beauty of Words
A Clean, Well-lighted Place (1)
Ernest Hemingway
Daily Quote
And now listen carefully. You in others – this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life – your soul, your immortality, your life in others. (Boris Pasternak)
Poem of the Day
The Miller’s Daughter
Alfred Tennyson
Beauty of Words
香山红叶
杨朔
Daily Quote
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Poem of the Day
Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes
Beauty of Words
品味杭州
林巍
Daily Quote
We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. (John Dryden)
Poem of the Day
Song
by Charlotte Mary Mew
Beauty of Words
荔枝蜜
杨朔
Daily Quote
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing. (Sylvia Plath)
Poem of the Day
It Rains in My Heart
Paul Verlaine
Beauty of Words
杂感集
黄药眠
忆江南
白居易
酒泉子•长忆观潮
潘阆
饮湖上初晴后雨
苏轼
临安春雨初霁
陆游
晓出净慈寺送林子方
杨万里
平湖秋月
孙锐
湖心亭看雪
张岱
Moon Gold
Benjamin March
To the West Lake
Rabindranath Tagore
月下雷峰影片
徐志摩
Daily Quote
我有我的人格、良心，不是钱能买的。我的音乐，要献给祖国，献给劳动人民大众，为挽救民族危机服务。（冼星海）
Poem of the Day
示儿
陆游
Beauty of Words
异国秋思
庐隐
Daily Quote
The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. (Tahereh Mafi)
Poem of the Day
中秋夜
舒婷
Beauty of Words
月，阙也
张晓风
Daily Quote
Man can climb to the highest summit, but he cannot dwell there long. (Bernard Shaw)
Poem of the Day
Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes
Beauty of Words
Sweet September
By Hal Borland
Daily Quote
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
Poem of the Day
Beginning
By James Wright
山居秋暝
王维
Beauty of Words
品味杭州
林巍
Daily Quote
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. (Albert Einstein)
Poem of the Day
In The Mist
Hermann Hesse
Beauty of Words
Charlotte’s Web (Chapter 2)
E. B. White
Daily Quote
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. (Edgar Rice Burroughs)
Poem of the Day
Sorrow
Alfred de Musset
Beauty of Words
赤壁赋
苏轼
Daily Quote
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Poem of the Day
秋天，这秋天
林徽因
Beauty of Words
My Wood (2)
Edward Morgan Foster
Daily Quote
How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star? (H. Rider Haggard)
Poem of the Day
农村的夏天
王亚平
Beauty of Words
My Wood (1)
Edward Morgan Foster
Daily Quote
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. (Elbert Hubbard)
Poem of the Day
The Rainbow
By William Wordsworth
Beauty of Words
Impressions of America
Oscar Wilde
Daily Quote
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well. (C. S. Lewis)
Poem of the Day
瑶池
李商隐
Beauty of Words
Charlotte’s Web
E. B. White
Daily Quote
Respect is for those who deserve not for those who demand it. (Paulo Coelho)
Poem of the Day
In The Mist Hermann Hesse
Beauty of Words
气根（下） 熊育群
Daily Quote
I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. (Albert Einstein)
Poem of the Day
峨眉山月歌 李白
Beauty of Words
气根（上） 熊育群
Daily Quote
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. (Richard Bach)
Poem of the Day
For My Son Noah, Ten Years Old by Robert Bly
Beauty of Words
骆驼 梁实秋
Daily Quote
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. (Michel de Montaigne)
Poem of the Day
The Rainbow By William Wordsworth
Beauty of Words
A Season for Hymning and Hawing Frank Trippet
Daily Quote
If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. (Elbert Hubbard)
Poem of the Day
Happiness Eugenio Montale
Beauty of Words
秋颂 罗兰
Daily Quote
Education is an ornament to the rich, and a refuge for the poor. (Aristotle)
Poem of the Day
“Nature” is What We See Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
Impressions of America Oscar Wilde
Daily Quote
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. (Charles Lindbergh)
Poem of the Day
黄鹤楼 崔颢
登金陵凤凰台 李白
Beauty of Words
Speech at the Nobel Banquet William Faulkner
Daily Quote
The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real. (Victor Hugo)
Poem of the Day
Drama’s Vitallest Expression is the Common Day Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
骆驼 梁实秋
Daily Quote
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. (Mark Twain)
Poem of the Day
For My Son Noah, Ten Years Old by Robert Bly
Beauty of Words
中年人的寂寞 夏丏尊
Daily Quote
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. (Richard Bach)
Poem of the Day
A Little While Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beauty of Words
枣核 萧乾
Daily Quote
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. (Nelson Mandela)
Poem of the Day
O Tell Me the Truth About Love By W. H. Auden
Beauty of Words
The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power Thomas De Quincey
Daily Quote
There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Poem of the Day
黄鹤楼 崔颢
登金陵凤凰台 李白
Beauty of Words
Speech at the Nobel Banquet William Faulkner
Daily Quote
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. (Charles Lindbergh)
Poem of the Day
卜算子•送鲍浩然之浙东 王观
Beauty of Words
The Spectator Club (2) Richard Steele
Daily Quote
If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
The Cloud Alexander Pushkin
Beauty of Words
The Spectator Club (1) Richard Steele
Daily Quotes
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. (John Lubbock)
Poem of the Day
It Rains in My Heart Paul Verlaine
Beauty of Words
荔枝蜜 杨朔
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I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear. (Nelson Mandela)
Poem of the Day
Silentium Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev
Patience Rabindranath Tagore
鹊桥仙 秦观
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The Alchemist Paulo Coelho
Poem of the Day
O Tell Me the Truth About Love By W. H. Auden
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与名人通信 高鲁生
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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. (John Ruskin)
Poem of the Day
采莲曲 王昌龄
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The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power Thomas De Quincey
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兵者，国之大事，死生之地，存亡之道，不可不察也。（孙子）
Poem of the Day
The Butterfly Is in Love with the Rose Heinrich Heine
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“知行合一”论 汤一介
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We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. (John Dryden)
Poem of the Day
Song by Charlotte Mary Mew
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荔枝蜜 杨朔
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Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing. (Sylvia Plath)
Poem of the Day
It Rains in My Heart Paul Verlaine
Beauty of Words
杂感集（节录） 黄药眠
Daily Quotes
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. (John Lubbock)
Poem of the Day
Where My Books go William Butler Yeats
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The Photograph Ruskin Bond
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. (Pearl S. Buck)
Poem of the Day
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known William Wordsworth
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在德国——自己的花是让别人看的 季羡林
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An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Poem of the Day
The Proverbs of Confucius Friedrich Schiller
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“知行合一”论 汤一介
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兵者，国之大事，死生之地，存亡之道，不可不察也。（孙子）
The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected. (Sun Tzu)
Poem of the Day
破阵子•为陈同甫赋壮词以寄 辛弃疾
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How the Steel Was Tempered Nikolay Ostrovsky
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Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe. (Douglas Adams)
Poem of the Day
The Fly William Blake
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海滨仲夏夜 峻青
Daily Quote
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. (Pearl S. Buck)
Poem of the Day
诉衷情 陆游
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How Should One Read A Book Virginia Woolf
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殷红的太阳在地平线上升起来，又在地平线上沉落下去，她在太空中放出的热与光芒原是一样的，只是由于地面上早晚热量发散的差异，显示了不同的天际色彩反映。（吴冠中）
Poem of the Day
Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known William Wordsworth
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在德国——自己的花是让别人看的 季羡林
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Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Poem of the Day
蝉 虞世南
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《瓦尔登湖》是美国作家梭罗独居瓦尔登湖畔的记录，描绘了他两年多时间里的所见、所闻和所思。该书共由18篇散文组成，在四季循环更替的过程中，详细记录了梭罗内心的渴望、冲突、失望和自我调整，以及调整过后再次渴望的复杂的心路历程，几经循环，直到最终实现为止。表明了作者用它来挑战他个人的、甚至是整个人类的界限。但这种挑战不是对实现自我价值的无限希望，而是伤后复原的无限力量。整部作品崇尚简朴生活，热爱大自然的风光，内容丰厚，意义深远，语言生动。
Walden By Henry David Thoreau
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If opportunity doesn’t knock…build a door. (Milton Berle)
Poem of the Day
How much happens in a day Pablo Neruda
Beauty of Words
饮料与人生 尤金
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Beethoven tells you what it’s like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it’s like to be human. Bach tells you what it’s like to be the universe. (Douglas Adams)
Poem of the Day
The Going Thomas Hardy
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维护团结的人 王蒙
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Poem of the Day
The Fly William Blake
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荷塘月色 朱自清
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Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas. (Milan Kundera)
Poem of the Day
‘Oh! How I Love, on a Fair Summer’s Eve’ John Keats
Beauty of Words
海滨仲夏夜 峻青
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The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language. (Jules Michelet)
Poem of the Day
The Soote Season that Bud and Bloom forth Brings Henry Howard
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The One-eyed Cat By Alfred George Gardiner
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Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything. (Muhammad Ali)
Poem of the Day
The Red Wheelbarrow By William Carlos Williams
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饮料与人生 尤金
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If opportunity doesn’t knock…build a door. (Milton Berle)
Poem of the Day
How much happens in a day Pablo Neruda
Beauty of Words
傅雷家书
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Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife. (Franz Schubert)
Poem of the Day
长相思•吴山青 林逋
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Of Marriage and Single Life Francis Bacon
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It is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep - into evil. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Poem of the Day
醉蓬莱 黄庭坚
Beauty of Words
清贫 方志敏
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The most intimate temper of a people, its deepest soul, is above all in its language. (Jules Michelet)
Poem of the Day
Who will in fairest book of nature know By Sir Philip Sidney
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忆滇缅路 萧乾
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that it gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Isaac Asimov)
Poem of the Day
De Aegypto Ezra Pound
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The One-eyed Cat By Alfred George Gardiner
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. (Ernest Hemingway)
Poem of the Day
The Soote Season that Bud and Bloom forth Brings Henry Howard
Beauty of Words
红海上的一幕 孙福熙
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. (Havelock Ellis)
Poem of the Day
山亭夏日 高骈
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Work Bertrand Russell
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A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. (Manifesto of the Communist Party)
Poem of the Day
狱中月夜 刘伯坚
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清贫 方志敏
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Concern for man himself and his fate must always be the chief interest of all technical endeavours.., in order that the creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations. (Albert Einstein)
Poem of the Day
题破山寺后禅院 常建
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Of Boldness by Francis Bacon
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It is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeks to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep - into evil. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Poem of the Day
醉蓬莱 黄庭坚
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A Short History of Nearly Everything — INTRODUCTION
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He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Poem of the Day
踏莎行•小径红稀 晏殊
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The Man in Black Oliver Goldsmith
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The time for changing one’s mind was over and gone and there was no question of ever returning to the paradise of home. Nothing lay ahead of us but exertion, struggle, and perseverance. Those who were able took advantage of the opportunities for success and happiness that presented themselves. (Naguib Mahfous)
Poem of the Day
Spring and Fall By Gerard Manley Hopkins
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How to Grow Old Bertrand Russell
Daily Qutoe
路漫漫其修远兮，吾将上下而求索。（《离骚》）
亦余心之所向兮，虽九死其尤未悔。（《离骚》）
乘骐骥以驰骋兮，来吾道夫先路！（《离骚》）
Poem of the Day
山鬼 屈原
Beauty of Words
渔父 屈原
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on. (Havelock Ellis)
Poem of the Day
访戴天山道士不遇 李白
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One More Thing By Raymond Carver
Poem of the Day
Returning Salvatore Quasimodo
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Once upon a time .... By Luciana Sandroni
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He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. (Gabriel García Márquez)
Poem of the Day
独坐敬亭山 李白
Beauty of Words
Work Bertrand Russell
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朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。楚之南有冥灵者，以五百岁为春，五百岁为秋；上古有大椿者，以八千岁为春，八千岁为秋。此大年也。而彭祖乃今以久特闻，众人匹之，不亦悲？（庄子）
Poem of the Day
Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beauty of Words
趣说散文 冯骥才
话说短文 冰心
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Poem of the Day
Returning Salvatore Quasimodo
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Elsie's Wedding John Priestley
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Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. (Plato)
Poem of the Day
Baby's Way Rabindranath Tagore
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Once upon a time .... By Luciana Sandroni
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
Poem of the Day
渔翁 柳宗元
Beauty of Words
To Philip Stanhope Sir Chesterfield
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. (William Hazlitt)
Poem of the Day
别 顾城
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The Monkey Garden Sandra Cisneros
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (John Barrymore)
Poem of the Day
A Peasant Ronald Stuart Thomas
Beauty of Words
灯 巴金
Daily Quote
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)
Poem of the Day
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning Jane Hirshifield
Beauty of Words
爱美 袁昌英
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The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. (Socrates)
Poem of the Day
海棠 苏轼
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A Sandpiper to Bring You Joy Ruth Peterson
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朝菌不知晦朔，蟪蛄不知春秋，此小年也。楚之南有冥灵者，以五百岁为春，五百岁为秋；上古有大椿者，以八千岁为春，八千岁为秋。此大年也。而彭祖乃今以久特闻，众人匹之，不亦悲？（庄子）
Poem of the Day
A Letter to Su T’ung Po W.S. Merwin
念奴娇•赤壁怀古 苏轼
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Bread Margaret Atwood
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. (Aldo Leopold)
Poem of the Day
Sudden Light by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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一百岁感言 杨绛
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. (Orison Swett Marden)
Poem of the Day
A Happy Ending Enid Blyton
Messy Room Shel Silverstein
Beauty of Words
趣说散文 冯骥才
话说短文 冰心
Poem of the Day
Disillusionment at Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens
Beauty of Words
听话的艺术 杨绛
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机关算尽太聪明，反算了卿卿性命。（曹雪芹）
Poem of the Day
Gathering Leaves By Robert Frost
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So Much to Burn Ben Hoffman
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. (George Bernard Shaw)
Poem of the Day
Under Ben Bulben (VI) By William Butler Yeats
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论美 拉尔夫•沃尔多•爱默生（夏济安 译）
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If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Poem of the Day
Twenty-Four Years Dylan Thomas
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听话的艺术 杨绛
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A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. (Amelia Earhart)
Poem of the Day
Disillusionment at Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens
Beauty of Words
梨花 许地山
牵牛花 叶圣陶
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. (Clint Eastwood)
Poem of the Day
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning Jane Hirshifield
Beauty of Words
爱美 袁昌英
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When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. (Zig Ziglar)
Poem of the Day
A Ditty Philip Sidney
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饥饿 谢冰莹
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation. (Pearl S. Buck)
Poem of the Day
When I was one-and-twenty A. E. Housman
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儿时 瞿秋白
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Poem of the Day
On Work Kahlil Gibran
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邮差先生 师陀
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. (Clint Eastwood)
Poem of the Day
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning Jane Hirshifield
Beauty of Words
春 丰子恺
Spring By Henry David Thoreau
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A little knowledge is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. (William White)
Poem of the Day
April Rain Song By Langston Hughs
滁州西涧 韦应物
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The Windmill Edward Lucas
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman. (Jonathan Swift)
Poem of the Day
Song Of The Flower Khalil Gibran
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就像人每天必须吃饭一样 季羡林
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. (Neil Armstrong)
Poem of the Day
Space Fantasia PRODUCED BY DOCTOR VICTOR MELODY & LYRICS BY NERISSA RUOHUI WANG
观沧海 曹操
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兰亭集序 王羲之
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What's past is prologue. (William Shakespeare)
Poem of the Day
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea William Shakespeare
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Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
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Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power. (Clint Eastwood)
Poem of the Day
相思 王维
Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte
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春 丰子恺
Spring Henry David Thoreau
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)
Poem of the Day
The Woodpecker Keeps Returning Jane Hirshifield
Beauty of Words
爱美 袁昌英
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So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. (Roald Dahl)
Poem of the Day
凤栖梧•伫倚危楼风细细 柳永
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Introduction to "A Brief History of Time" By Karl Sagan
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It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Poem of the Day
流吧，长江的水 穆旦
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The Three New Yorks Elwyn Brooks White
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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman. (Jonathan Swift)
Poem of the Day
Song Of The Flower Khalil Gibran
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就像人每天必须吃饭一样 季羡林
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If anyone spends almost the whole day in reading...he gradually loses the capacity for thinking...This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Poem of the Day
清明 黄庭坚
青门引•春思 张先
破阵子•燕子来时新社 晏殊
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活出个性 周国平
Poem of the Day
I am a book, read me. by Vagelis Iliopoulos
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Climbing up Book by Book Renate Welsh
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Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are. (John Wooden)
Poem of the Day
To Make A Prairie Emily Dickinson
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晨昏诺日朗 赵丽宏
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A man is not old as long as he is seeking something. A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. (John Barrymore)
Poem of the Day
A Peasant Ronald Stuart Thomas
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灯 巴金
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What we have once enjoyed deeply we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. (Helen Keller)
Poem of the Day
Mother to Son By Langston Hughes
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Almost Everyone's Guide to Science (Excerpt) John Gribbin
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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. (W. H. Auden)
Poem of the Day
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
青青陵上柏 选自《古诗十九首》
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春的林野 许地山
Written in March William Wordsworth
By the Rivers of Babylon We Sat Down and Wept Lord Byron
Mutability by P. B. Shelley
The Human Seasons by John Keats
国殇 屈原
月下独酌 李白
再别康桥 徐志摩
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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. (Charles Bukowski)
Poem of the Day
Broken Vase Sully Prudhomme
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Things I have enjoyed Matt Haig
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. (William Hazlitt)
Poem of the Day
别 顾城
Beauty of Words
The Monkey Garden Sandra Cisneros
Daily Quote
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
Poem of the Day
渔翁 柳宗元
Beauty of Words
To Philip Stanhope Sir Chesterfield
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We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding. (Rudyard Kipling)
Poem of the Day
The coming of wisdom with time William Butler Yeats
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Pursuit as Happiness Ernest Hemingway
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Men often ask me, 'Why are your female characters so paranoid?' It’s not paranoia. It’s recognition of their situation. (Margaret Atwood)
Poem of the Day
风筝 林徽因
Phenomenal Woman By Maya Angelou
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梦 冰心
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Poem of the Day
My Song Rabindranath Tagore
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The Social Sense W.S. Maugham
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We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence. (Albert Einstein)
Poem of the Day
惠崇春江晚景 苏轼
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Flowery Tuscany (2) D.H. Lawrence
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By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again. (Neil Gaiman)
Poem of the Day
黄鹤楼送孟浩然之广陵 李白
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Flowery Tuscany (1) D.H. Lawrence
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Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. (Mother Teresa)
Poem of the Day
The Sick Rose By William Blake
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The Black Cat Edgar Allan Poe
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. (Zelda Fitzgerald)
Poem of the Day
Ditty of First Desire Federico Garcia Lorca
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残雪断想 岑桑
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure. (Paulo Coelho)
Poem of the Day
On Talking Kahlil Gibran
Beauty of Words
感悟春天 朱国良
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If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. (J.K. Rowling)
Poem of the Day
苔 袁枚
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Defoe Virginia Woolf
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers. (Charles W. Eliot)
Poem of the Day
Harlem Langston Hughes
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The Old Manse Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. (Jean de La Fontaine)
Poem of the Day
鹿柴 王维
Beauty of Words
罗丹之约 铁凝
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Epicurus)
Poem of the Day
I Love You Only Because You're Lovely Torquato Tasso
Beauty of Words 残雪断想 岑桑
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Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold. (Zelda Fitzgerald)
Poem of the Day
Ditty of First Desire Federico Garcia Lorca
Beauty of Words
心田上的百合花 林清玄
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Poem of the Day
满江红 岳飞
Beauty of Words
春之怀古 张晓风
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Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Poem of the Day
春天 芒克
Beauty of Words
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
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Philosophy is really homesickness, it is the urge to be at home everywhere. (Novalis)
Poem of the Day
杂诗 王维
Beauty of Words
Home 家
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You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life. (Mary Oliver)
Poem of the Day
The Soul selects her own Society Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
In Defence of English Cooking George Orwell
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Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. (Dale Carnegie)
Poem of the Day
别妻 苏武
Beauty of Words
雪 鲁迅
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Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. (Rainer Maria Rilke)
Poem of the Day
Spring William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
春之怀古 张晓风
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The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. (William Cullen Bryant)
Poem of the Day
满江红 岳飞
Beauty of Words
卑微也是我们的朋友 毕淑敏
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For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. (Boethius)
Poem of the Day
Good Night Seamus Heaney
Beauty of Words
The End of Life Lin Yutang
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It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Poem of the Day
Walk with me in the moonlight By Leon Knight
Beauty of Words
翡冷翠山居闲话 徐志摩
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It is possible to learn more of a human being in one minute of love than in months of observation. (Roman Rolland)
Poem of the Day
When I Have Fears John Keats
Beauty of Words
春的消息 冰心
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Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers. (Kahlil Gibran)
Poem of the Day
I Remember You As You Were by Pablo Neruda
Beauty of Words
English Traits Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Learning is an active process. We learn by doing. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind. (Dale Carnegie)
Poem of the Day
A Friend Edgar A. Guest
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A Winter Walk (2) Henry David Thoreau
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Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without. (Thomas de Quincey)
Poem of the Day
Sail Mikhail Lermontov
Beauty of Words
A Winter Walk (1) Henry David Thoreau
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It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Poem of the Day
白雪歌送武判官归京 岑参
Beauty of Words
Winter Mist Robert Palfrey Utter
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When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. (Maya Angelou)
Poem of the Day
归园田居（其一） 陶渊明
Beauty of Words
The Balance of Nature By Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
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Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers. (Kahlil Gibran)
Poem of the Day
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
Beauty of Words
雪 鲁迅
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Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted. (Denis Waitley)
Poem of the Day
I Remember You As You Were by Pablo Neruda
Beauty of Words
Fiction and the Dream John Banville
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless. (Gilbert K. Chesterton)
Poem of the Day
苏小小墓 李贺
Beauty of Words
English Traits (Excerpt) Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet)
Poem of the Day
Skin Philip Larkin
Beauty of Words
往事 冰心
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When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. (Maya Angelou)
Poem of the Day
别妻 苏武
Beauty of Words
学问与趣味 梁实秋
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We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. (William Hazlitt)
Poem of the Day
归园田居（其一） 陶渊明
Beauty of Words
The Balance of Nature By Sir Julian Sorell Huxley
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We live in this world when we love it. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
The Wild Honeysuckle Philip Freneau
Beauty of Words
The Nightingale and the Rose Oscar Wilde
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. (Anton Chekhov)
Poem of the Day
Art Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Integrity M.K. Rawlings
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Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all. (Ernest Hemingway)
Poem of the Day
Boats Sail on the Rivers C. G. Rossetti
Beauty of Words
On Door Christopher Morley
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The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. (Helen Keller)
Poem of the Day
Yesterday Once More Richard Carpenter and John Bettis
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A Few Thoughts on Sleep Leigh Hunt
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The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. (William Osler)
Poem of the Day
Farewell, Love by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Beauty of Words
往事 冰心
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It is men’s duty to be courageous enough to seek for truth. (Nicolaus Copernicus)
Poem of the Day
Rome Ezra Pound
Beauty of Words
没有秋虫的地方 叶圣陶
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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. (Anton Chekhov)
Poem of the Day
Skin Philip Larkin
Beauty of Words
The legacy of love found in my mother’s recipe box Sally Schwartz Friedman
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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. (Anne Bradstreet)
Poem of the Day
邯郸冬至夜思家 白居易
Beauty of Words
Integrity M.K. Rawlings
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At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. (Benjamin Franklin)
Poem of the Day
Art Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty of Words
A Room with A View Edward Morgan Forster
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If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. (Kahlil Gibran)
Poem of the Day
Song Emily Bronte
Beauty of Words
鲁迅先生记 萧红
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The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases. (William Osler)
Poem of the Day
Sun of The Sleepless! George Gordon Byron
Beauty of Words
没有秋虫的地方 叶圣陶
Daily Quote
It is men’s duty to be courageous enough to seek for truth. (Nicolaus Copernicus)
Poem of the Day
I taste a liquor never brewed Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
The Durable Satisfactions of Life Charles W. Eliot
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
Poem of the Day
Rome Ezra Pound
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A Bloom to Last Forever Clinton Griffith
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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. (René Descartes)
Poem of the Day
Ode to the West Wind By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty of Words
A True Instinct for the Beautiful By Rachel Carson
Daily Quote
If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind. (Kahlil Gibran)
Poem of the Day
Song Emily Bronte
Beauty of Words
Halftime Bob Buford
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When the fight begins within himself, a man is worth something. (Robert Browning)
Poem of the Day
Life Langston Hughs
Beauty of Words
鲁迅先生记 萧红
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Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (Marcel Proust)
Poem of the Day
初冬书怀 朱淑真
Beauty of Words
A Room of His Own Mary E. Potter
Daily Quote
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. (René Descartes)
Poem of the Day
The Cat and the Moon William Butler Yates
Beauty of Words
猫 老舍
养花 老舍
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What can shorten time? Activities. What can lengthen time uneasily to endure? Comfort. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe)
Poem of the Day
饮酒·结庐在人境 陶渊明
Beauty of Words
Sorrows of the Millionaire by George Bernard Shaw
Daily Quote
合抱之木，生于毫末，九层之台，起于累土，千里之行，始于足下。（老子）
Poem of the Day
Ode to the West Wind By Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty of Words
A True Instinct for the Beautiful By Rachel Carson
Daily Quote
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. (Leo Tolstoy)
Poem of the Day
To the Moon Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Beauty of Words
秋夜 鲁迅
Daily Quote
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. (Marcel Proust)
Poem of the Day
送杜少府之任蜀州 王勃
Beauty of Words
The Whistle Benjamin Franklin
The Man and the Opportunity Orison Marden
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A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. (Edmond de Goncourt)
Poem of the Day
初冬书怀 朱淑真
Beauty of Words
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
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There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort. (Charlotte Bronte)
Poem of the Day
On Winter’s Margin Mary Oliver Beauty of Words
A Room of His Own Mary E. Potter
Daily Quote
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. (Leo Tolstoy)
Poem of the Day
西湖秋泛 刘大白
Beauty of Words
Mystery of the White Gardenia Marsha Arons
Daily Quote
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana)
Poem of the Day
To the Moon Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Beauty of Words
Borrowing a Match Stephen Lencock
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Time disappears: time is a comfort, and a painkiller. (William Thackeray)
Poem of the Day
The Lost Mistress Robert Browning
Beauty of Words
秋夜 鲁迅
Daily Quote
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. (Dion Boucicault)
Poem of the Day
The Sea Hath Its Pearls Heinrich Heine
Beauty of Words
母鸡 老舍
Daily Quote
Amidst all critics, the greatest, the most correct, and the most talented one is time. (Vissarion Belinsky)
Poem of the Day
你来了 林徽因
Beauty of Words
The Walden (House Warming) Henry David Thoreau
Daily Quote
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think. (Margaret Mead)
Poem of the Day
Autumn Evening Frances Darwin Cornford
Beauty of Words
玫瑰的刺 庐隐
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I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Poem of the Day
Only a Dad Edgar Albert Guest
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Half a Day By Naguib Mahfous
Daily Quote
No other misfortune can be compared with the loss of time. (Ivan Turgenev)
Poem of the Day
This Is Just To Say William Carlos Williams
Beauty of Words
香山红叶 杨朔
Daily Quote
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. (Napoleon Hill)
Poem of the Day
The Sea Hath Its Pearls Heinrich Heine
Beauty of Words
母鸡 老舍
Daily Quote
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. (William Somerset Maugham)
Poem of the Day
天净沙·秋思 马致远
Beauty of Words
Morality and the Novel (2) D.H. Lawrence
Daily Quote
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. (Dion Boucicault)
Poem of the Day
Night Song at Amalfi Sara Teasdale
Beauty of Words
Morality and the Novel (1) D.H. Lawrence
Daily Quote
What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. (Spenser Johnson)
Poem of the Day
乌衣巷 刘禹锡
Beauty of Words
On Poetry in Relation to Our Age and Country William Cullen Bryant
Daily Quote
孔子曰：益者三友，损者三友。友直，友谅，友多闻，益矣。友便辟，友善柔，友便佞，损矣。
Poem of the Day
This Is Just To Say William Carlos Williams
Beauty of Words
Dorothy Wordsworth Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
No other misfortune can be compared with the loss of time. (Ivan Turgenev)
Poem of the Day
折桂令·中秋 张养浩
Beauty of Words
Speech at the Grave of Karl Marx Friedrich Engels
Daily Quote
And now listen carefully. You in others – this is your soul. This is what you are. This is what your consciousness has breathed and lived on and enjoyed throughout your life – your soul, your immortality, your life in others. (Boris Pasternak)
Poem of the Day
The Miller’s Daughter Alfred Tennyson
Beauty of Words
香山红叶 杨朔
Daily Quote
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim)
Poem of the Day
Walk with me in the moonlight By Leon Knight
Beauty of Words
异国秋思 庐隐
Daily Quote
Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us as we grasp them by the handle or blade. (James Lowell)
Poem of the Day
浣溪沙·谁念西风独自凉 纳兰性德
Beauty of Words
On Poetry in Relation to Our Age and Country William Cullen Bryant
Daily Quote
He vaguely knows that the secret of a happy life is nothing else, but to sign a decent agreement with loneliness. (Garcia Marquez)
Poem of the Day
乌衣巷 刘禹锡
Beauty of Words
Ball of Fat Guy de Maupassant
Daily Quote
What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists. (Spenser Johnson)
Poem of the Day
Moments Jorge Luis Borges
Beauty of Words
夕阳与晨曦 吴冠中
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It never will rain roses. When we want to have more roses we must plant trees. (George Eliot)
Poem of the Day
Beloved, Thou Hast Brought Me Many Flowers Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beauty of Words
石榴花 周领顺
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. (Voltaire)
Poem of the Day
The Blossom William Blake
Beauty of Words
我与地坛 史铁生
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Many people waste a whole life to waiting for the chance to meet their desire. (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
Poem of the Day
Shall I Your Beauties with the Moon Compare By Pierre De Ronsard
Beauty of Words
Art and Life By Jeanette Winterson
Daily Quote
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. (Robert H. Schuller)
Poem of the Day
定风波 苏轼
Beauty of Words
The Richness of Learning Richard Cohen
Daily Quote
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. (Harper Lee)
Poem of the Day
锦瑟 李商隐
Beauty of Words
月，阙也 张晓风
Daily Quote
我有我的人格、良心，不是钱能买的。我的音乐，要献给祖国，献给劳动人民大众，为挽救民族危机服务。（冼星海）
Poem of the Day
示儿 陆游
Beauty of Words
异国秋思 庐隐
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When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work. (George Bernard Shaw)
Poem of the Day
活在这珍贵的人间 海子
Beauty of Words
The Old and the New Schoolmaster Charles Lamb
Daily Quote
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Poem of the Day
The End of the World Sylvia Dee & Arthur Kent
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To Ellen Nussey Charlotte Bronte
Daily Quote
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. (Isaac Asimov)
Poem of the Day
我的记忆 戴望舒
Beauty of Words
春 朱自清
Daily Quote
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within. (Immanuel Kant)
Poem of the Day
Patience Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words
Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. (Antisthenes)
Poem of the Day
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louis Stevenson
Beauty of Words
Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
Daily Quote
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. (Maya Angelou)
Poem of the Day
Love at Sea Algernon Charles Swinburne
Beauty of Words
The Falls of Niagara Charles Dickens
Daily Quote
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without the dew? The tear is rendered by the smile precious above the smile itself. (Walter Savage Landor)
Poem of the Day
Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines Pablo Neruda
Beauty of Words
Butterfly Kisses Maria Rainer
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I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. (Vincent Van Gogh)
Poem of the Day
The Solitary Sara Teasdale
Beauty of Words
大师的背影（下） 赵丽宏
Daily Quote
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task, which more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. (William James)
Poem of the Day
You're Like A Flower Christian Heinrich Heine
Beauty of Words
大师的背影（上） 赵丽宏
Daily Quote
We can’t all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (Will Rogers)
Poem of the Day
A Man and a Woman Sit Near Each Other Robert Bly
Beauty of Words
牵牛花 叶圣陶
Daily Quote
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy)
Poem of the Day
No Birds in Sight Ivan Bunin
Beauty of Words
上屋顶看星星 江儿
Daily Quote
The moon is a loyal companion. It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human. (Tahereh Mafi)
Poem of the Day
中秋夜 舒婷
Beauty of Words
月，阙也 张晓风
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Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
渡荆门送别 李白
Beauty of Words
Fiodor Dostoevsky to His Brother Mihail
Daily Quote
Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. (Harper Lee)
Poem of the Day
锦瑟 李商隐
Beauty of Words
Of Parents and Children Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. (William Morris)
Poem of the Day
The Winds of Fate Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Beauty of Words
狗 巴金
繁星 巴金
Daily Quote
When one wastes much time and energy sinking many shallow wells, it is better for him to spend the same time and energy digging a deep one. (Romain Rolland)
Poem of the Day
九月 顾城
Beauty of Words
First Day of School Edemondo De Amicis
Daily Quote
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Poem of the Day
Walk with me in the moonlight By Leon Knight
Beauty of Words
翡冷翠山居闲话 徐志摩
Daily Quote
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet. (James Oppenheim)
Poem of the Day
Bed in Summer By Robert Louis Stevenson
Beauty of Words
Lord of Flies William Golding
Daily Quote
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. (Samuel Johnson)
Poem of the Day
Good Night Seamus Heaney
Beauty of Words
扬州的夏日 朱自清
Daily Quote
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. (Andy Rooney)
Poem of the Day
The Winds of Fate Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Beauty of Words
狗 巴金
Daily Quote
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. (William Morris)
Poem of the Day
On Wing of Songs By Heinrich Heine
Beauty of Words
雨 郁达夫
Daily Quote
Happiness is not something you experience; it’s something you remember. (Oscar Levant)
Poem of the Day
The Eyes That Drew from Me by Francesco Petrarch
Beauty of Words
Montaigne Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
Do you love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of. (Benjamin Franklin)
Poem of the Day
水调歌头·游泳 毛泽东
Beauty of Words
A Letter to Thoreau By Edward O. Wilson
Daily Quote
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ garden. (Douglas William Jerrold)
Poem of the Day
Sea Fever John Masefield
Beauty of Words
扬州的夏日 朱自清
Daily Quote
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others. (Samuel Johnson)
Poem of the Day
The Sun Rising John Donne
Beauty of Words
话说短文 冰心
Daily Quote
For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. (Boethius)
Poem of the Day
Good Night Seamus Heaney
Beauty of Words
The End of Life Lin Yutang
Daily Quote
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. (Thomas Hexley)
Poem of the Day
Life in a Love Robert Browning
Beauty of Words
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Daily Quote
Do you love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of. (Benjamin Franklin)
Poem of the Day
A Minor Bird Robert Frost
Beauty of Words
On Reading W.S. Maugham
Daily Quote
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. (Don Marquis)
Poem of the Day
村姑 戴望舒
Beauty of Words
A Letter to Thoreau (Excerpt) By Edward O. Wilson
Daily Quote
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. (Michael Jordan)
Poem of the Day
水调歌头·游泳 毛泽东
Beauty of Words
Walking Tours Robert Louis Stevenson
Daily Quote
婚姻是一座围城，城外的人想进去，城里的人想出来。（钱钟书）
Poem of the Day
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through By D.H. Lawrence
Beauty of Words
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading Charles Lamb
Daily Quote
I have ever wasted time, but now time expends me. (William Shakespeare)
Poem of the Day
Life in a Love Robert Browning
Beauty of Words
槐花吟 周领顺
Daily Quote
Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth. (Thomas Hexley)
Poem of the Day
迢迢牵牛星
Beauty of Words
Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell Charlotte Bronte
Daily Quote
Only the soldier is a free man because he can look death in the face. (Friedrich Schiller)
Poem of the Day
塞下曲 李白
Beauty of Words
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
Daily Quote
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Poem of the Day
Remember Me When I am Gone Away By Christina Rossetti
Beauty of Words
提醒幸福 毕淑敏
Daily Quote
婚姻是一座围城，城外的人想进去，城里的人想出来。（钱钟书）
Poem of the Day
相见欢 李煜
Beauty of Words
Brute Neighbors Henry David Thoreau
Daily Quote
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road. (Stendhal)
Poem of the Day
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through D.H. Lawrence
Beauty of Words
荷叶母亲 冰心
Daily Quote
Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living. (Bertie Charles Forbes)
Poem of the Day
清平乐·闲居书付儿辈 陈继儒
Beauty of Words
Detached Thoughts on Books and Reading Charles Lamb
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In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences. (Horace Annesley Vachell)
Poem of the Day
Solitude Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Beauty of Words
Autobiographical Sketch D.H. Lawrence
Daily Quote
Time cures sorrows and squabbles because we all change, and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended is the same. (Blaise Pascal)
Poem of the Day
Remember Me When I am Gone Away By Christina Rossetti
Beauty of Words
养成好习惯 梁实秋
Daily Quote
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Poem of the Day
蝉 虞世南
Beauty of Words
Walden By Henry David Thoreau
Daily Quote
Life, after all, is not as good or as bad as we believe it to be. (Guy de Maupassant)
Poem of the Day
Oread Hilda Doolittle
Beauty of Words
提醒幸福 毕淑敏
Daily Quote
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance of medicine, but lost time is gone forever. (Samuel Smiles)
Poem of the Day
The Tyger by William Blake
Beauty of Words
A Haunted House Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest and acts the best. (Samuel Bailey)
Poem of the Day
Solitude Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Beauty of Words
猴子的故事 梁漱溟
Daily Quote
In nature there are no rewards or punishments; there are consequences. (Horace Annesley Vachell)
Poem of the Day
忆（十七） 俞平伯
Beauty of Words
Autobiographical Sketch D.H. Lawrence
Daily Quote
The chief cause of human errors is to be found the prejudices picked up in childhood. (Rene Descartes)
Poem of the Day Love by Roy Croft
Beauty of Words
桃花心木 林清玄
Daily Quote
Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach. (W.E.B. Du Bois)
Poem of the Day
Summer Dawn William Morris
Beauty of Words
狂人日记 鲁迅
Daily Quote
Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. (Thomas Fuller)
Poem of the Day
假如你走来 陈敬容
Beauty of Words
A Haunted House Virginia Woolf
Daily Quote
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance of medicine, but lost time is gone forever. (Samuel Smiles)
Poem of the Day
六月二十七日望湖楼醉书 苏轼
Beauty of Words
On Familiar Style William Hazlitt
Daily Quote
The best sauce in the world is hunger. (Cervantes)
Poem of the Day
The Tyger by William Blake
Beauty of Words
书房 何为
Daily Quote
Almost any situation – good or bad – is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Seneca)
Poem of the Day
Two English Poems By Jorge Luis Borges
Beauty of Words
不要抛弃学问 胡适
Daily Quote
The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways. The point however is to change it. (Karl Marx)
Poem of the Day
菩萨蛮·大柏地 毛泽东
Beauty of Words
狂人日记 鲁迅
Daily Quote
Children learn more from what you are, than what you teach. (W.E.B. Du Bois)
Poem of the Day
书湖阴先生壁 王安石
Beauty of Words
Letter to My Daughter Vasyl Sukhomlynsky
Daily Quote
The second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing but the habits acquired during the first half. (Feodor Dostoevski)
Poem of the Day
Summer Dawn William Morris
Beauty of Words
The Age of Innocence Edith Warton
Daily Quote
A house without books is like a room without windows. (Thomas Mann)
Poem of the Day
At Castle Boterel Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
家书 王培静
再别康桥 徐志摩
Sleep-stealer Rabindranath Tagore
The Wondrous Moment of Our Meeting by Alexander Pushkin
Letter From Havana Keorapetse Kgositsile
祖国颂 卡洛斯·德魯蒙德·德·安德拉德
Daily Quote
In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. (Aldo Leopold)
Poem of the Day
Summer for thee, grant I may be Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
不要抛弃学问 胡适
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Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal. (Oscar Wilde)
Poem of the Day
Spring Beauties Ruth Stone
Beauty of Words
My Father Edmondo de Amicis
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No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk. (Moliere)
Poem of the Day
The daisies James Stephens
Beauty of Words
伟大的空话 邓拓
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A house without books is like a room without windows. (Thomas Mann)
Poem of the Day
琵琶行 白居易
Beauty of Words
Her Own Village William Henry Hudson
Daily Quote
Almost any situation – good or bad – is affected by the attitude we bring to. (Lucius Seneca)
Poem of the Day
At Castle Boterel Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
家书 王培静
Daily Quote
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. (Josh Billings)
Poem of the Day
Fair Is My Love Edmund Spencer
Beauty of Words
朋友四型 余光中
Daily Quote
Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal. (Oscar Wilde)
Poem of the Day
小城霏雨 林莽
Beauty of Words
My Father Edmondo de Amicis
Daily Quote
Remember that no matter how cool you think you may be, you’re not cool enough to look down on anyone…ever. (Paul Walker)
Poem of the Day
Spring Beauties Ruth Stone
Beauty of Words
再寄小读者 冰心
Daily Quote
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. (Euripides)
Poem of the Day
赠汪伦 李白
Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte
Beauty of Words
Friendship Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daily Quote
Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Poem of the Day
When I Have Fears John Keats
Beauty of Words
Thinking Like a Mountain Aldo Leopold
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It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about. (Francis Bacon)
Poem of the Day
Fair Is My Love Edmund Spencer
Beauty of Words
端午的鸭蛋 汪曾祺
Daily Quote
If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (John Bunyan)
Poem of the Day
村居 高鼎
稚子弄冰 杨万里
Beauty of Words
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame
Daily Quote
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor place to stay. (Josh Billings)
Poem of the Day
Hap Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
朋友四型 余光中
Daily Quote
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. (Samuel Johnson)
Poem of the Day
A Tear and A Smile by Khalil Gibran
Beauty of Words
Love and Logic: The Story of a Fallacy Max Schulman
Daily Quote
Nature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Poem of the Day
错误 郑愁予
Beauty of Words
Thinking Like a Mountain Aldo Leopold
Daily Quote
It is possible to learn more of a human being in one minute of love than in months of observation. (Roman Rolland)
Poem of the Day
When I Have Fears John Keats
Beauty of Words
春的消息 冰心
Daily Quote
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. (A.E. Houseman)
Poem of the Day
How Soon Hath Time by John Milton
Beauty of Words Golden Fruit Alan Alexander Milne
Daily Quote
Love is like a war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. (Henry L. Mencken)
Poem of the Day
我欢喜你 沈从文
Beauty of Words
Love and Logic: The Story of a Fallacy Max Schulman
Daily Quote
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. (Samuel Johnson)
Poem of the Day
Youth and Age By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beauty of Words
Facing the Enemies Within Jim Rohn
Daily Quote
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but what they miss. (Thomas Carlyle)
Poem of the Day
A Tear and A Smile by Khalil Gibran
Beauty of Words
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft – Spring Henry Ryecroft
Daily Quote
In prose you might say a thing seven different ways; in poetry the words are not replaceable. (Stephen Spender)
Poem of the Day
流吧，长江的水 穆旦
Beauty of Words
The Rose Logan Pearsall Smith
Daily Quote
As a well-spend day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. (Leonardo da Vinci)
Poem of the Day
An Oasis A. Mary F. Robinson
Beauty of Words
Golden Fruit Alan Alexander Milne
Daily Quote
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. (A.E. Houseman)
Poem of the Day
Mirabeau Bridge By Guillaume Apollinaire (translated by Donald Revell)
Beauty of Words
The School Donald Barthelme
Daily Quote
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange – my youth. (Sara Teasdale)
Poem of the Day
How Soon Hath Time by John Milton
Beauty of Words
丁香花下 黄秋耘
Daily Quote
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Poem of the Day
I Have Come to You Delighted Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet
Beauty of Words
Spring, the Resurrection Time James J. Kilpatrick
Daily Quote
When work is pleasure, life is a joy! (Maxim Gorky)
Poem of the Day
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond E. E. Cummings
Beauty of Words
时间 席慕蓉
Daily Quote
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Poem of the Day
If Death Is Kind Sara Teasdale
Beauty of Words
The Fly (2) Katherine Mansfield
Daily Quote
A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought. (Samuel Palmer)
Poem of the Day
I Have Come to You Delighted Afanasy Afanasyevich Fet
Beauty of Words
The Fly (1) Katherine Mansfield
Daily Quote
In prose you might say a thing seven different ways; in poetry the words are not replaceable. (Stephen Spender)
Poem of the Day
莎士比亚经典作品
Beauty of Words
Spring, the Resurrection Time James J. Kilpatrick
Daily Quote
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. (P. Chesterfield)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser
Beauty of Words
就像人每天必须吃饭一样 季羡林
Daily Quote
Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks or bend a knotted oak. (William Congreve)
音乐有着抚慰粗野的胸怀、软化顽石或使千年老树弯腰的魅力。（英国作家 康格里夫）
Nothing is worth living for without music. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
没有音乐，生命是没有价值的。（德国哲学家 尼采）
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. (Samuel Butler)
生命就像音乐一样，需要倾听、感受和感知，而不是循规蹈矩。（英国作家 塞缪尔·巴特勒）
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. (Aldous Huxley)
除了沉默以外，最能表达无法表达之内容的便是音乐。（英国作家 阿道司·赫胥黎）
Anything too stupid to be said, is sung. (Voltaire)
说出来觉得愚蠢的那些话，就唱出来。（伏尔泰）
Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is possible to be silent. (Victor Hugo)
音乐表达无法说出却又不可能沉默的东西。（维克多·雨果）
Poem of the Day
Music when Soft Voices Die By Percy Bysshe Shelley
钗头凤 陆游/唐婉
教我如何不想她 刘半农
送别 李叔同
The Little Prince 小王子
Daily Quote
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. (George Eliot)
Poem of the Day
A Girl Ezra Pound
Beauty of Words
The Rose Logan Pearsall Smith
Daily Quote
It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Poem of the Day
流吧，长江的水 穆旦
Beauty of Words
The Three New Yorks Elwyn Brooks White
Daily Quote
Bravery is learned, and like anything learned, it just needs to be practiced. (Caroline Paul)
Poem of the Day
Who Passed by the Window of My Childhood Par Lagerkvist
Beauty of Words
冬阳·童年·骆驼队 林海音
Daily Quote
The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merryman. (Jonathan Swift)
Poem of the Day
Song Of The Flower Khalil Gibran
Beauty of Words
就像人每天必须吃饭一样 季羡林
Daily Quote
No man can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil of life; or temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good. (Cicero)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 75 Edmund Spenser
Beauty of Words
A Pair of Silk Stockings (2) Kate Chopin
Daily Quote
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least. (P. Chesterfield)
Poem of the Day
寄鞋 洛夫
Beauty of Words
A Pair of Silk Stockings (1) Kate Chopin
Daily Quote
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Poem of the Day
青春 闻一多
Beauty of Words
Martin and the Books Erica Lillegg
Daily Quote
Bravery is learned, and like anything learned, it just needs to be practiced. (Caroline Paul)
Poem of the Day
Don’t Quit Edgar Albert Guest
Beauty of Words
不死鸟 三毛
Daily Quote
The best way of keeping fit is to keep a heart young. (Wilkie Collins)
Poem of the Day
我的记忆 戴望舒
Beauty of Words
Suppose Someone Gave You a Pen
Daily Quote
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Poem of the Day
The End of the World Sylvia Dee & Arthur Kent
Beauty of Words
To Ellen Nussey
Poem of the Day
Who Passed by the Window of My Childhood Par Lagerkvist
Beauty of Words
Martin and the Books Erica Lillegg
Daily Quote
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Poem of the Day
竹枝词 刘禹锡
Beauty of Words
A Dark Brown Dog (2) Stephen Crane
Daily Quote
Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing well those you hold. (Josh Billings)
Poem of the Day
青春 闻一多
Beauty of Words
A Dark Brown Dog (1) Stephen Crane
Daily Quote
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. (Samuel Johnson)
Poem of the Day
曲江对酒 Drinking Vis-a-vis the Bending River（其一） 杜甫
Beauty of Words
The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens
Daily Quote
The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Poem of the Day
远去的帆影 公刘
Beauty of Words
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Daily Quote
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. (George Eliot)
Poem of the Day
The End of the World Sylvia Dee & Arthur Kent
Beauty of Words
冬阳·童年·骆驼队 林海音
Daily Quote
For a long time I used to go to bed early. Sometimes, when I had put out my candle, my eyes would close so quickly that I had not even time to say "I'm going to sleep." And half an hour later the thought that it was time to go to sleep would awaken me. (Marcel Proust)
Poem of the Day
Spring Annette Broadrick
Beauty of Words
To Ellen Nussey Charlotte Bronte
Daily Quote
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. (Virginia Woolf)
Poem of the Day
Spring Goeth All in White Robert Bridges
春日 朱熹
Beauty of Words
虎 巴金
Daily Quote
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. (William James)
Poem of the Day
曲江对酒（其一） 杜甫
Beauty of Words
The Cricket on the Hearth Charles Dickens
Daily Quote
Our deeds determine us, much as we determine our deeds. (George Eliot)
Poem of the Day
To the Cuckoo By William Wordsworth
Beauty of Words
What Is Science? (2) Ira Remsem
Daily Quote
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. (Samuel Johnson)
Poem of the Day
听瓶记 余光中
Beauty of Words
What Is Science? (1) Ira Remsen
Daily Quote
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. (Isaac Asimov)
Poem of the Day
我的记忆 戴望舒
Beauty of Words
春 朱自清
Daily Quote
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say. (Virginia Woolf)
Poem of the Day
All That's Past Walter de la Mare
Beauty of Words
虎 巴金
Daily Quote
Modesty is to merit what shadows are to a picture, which give it force and relief. (Issac Newton)
Poem of the Day
Spring Goeth All in White Robert Bridges
春日 朱熹
Beauty of Words
Three Great Puffy Rolls Benjamin Franklin
Daily Quote
When work is pleasure, life is a joy! (Maxim Gorky)
Poem of the Day
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond E. E. Cummings
Beauty of Words
时间 席慕蓉
Daily Quote
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. (Isaac Asimov)
Poem of the Day
村居 高鼎
Beauty of Words
In Praise of the Humble Comma Pico Iyer
Daily Quote
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. (Søren Kierkegaard)
Poem of the Day
Lines Written in Early Spring William Wordsworth
Beauty of Words
春 朱自清
Daily Quote
The best way of keeping fit is to keep a heart young. (Wilkie Collins)
Poem of the Day
我的记忆 戴望舒
Beauty of Words
Suppose Someone Gave You a Pen
Daily Quote
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within. (Immanuel Kant)
Poem of the Day
Patience Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words
Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
君子周而不比，小人比而不周。（《论语》）
Poem of the Day
somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond E. E. Cummings
Beauty of Words
The Luncheon (2) William Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
When work is pleasure, life is a joy! (Maxim Gorky)
Poem of the Day
雕刻家 纪弦
Beauty of Words
The Luncheon (1) William Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
In order that people may be happy in their work, these things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. (John Ruskin)
Poem of the Day
Departure Louise Glück
Beauty of Words
时间 席慕蓉
Daily Quote
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. (François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld)
Poem of the Day
Three Shadows Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beauty of Words
Legato By Lisa Devita
Daily Quote
It’s better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Poem of the Day
静女 《诗经》
Beauty of Words
Jane Austen and Pride and Prejudice Somerset Maugham
Daily Quote
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within. (Immanuel Kant)
Poem of the Day
Patience Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words
长夜属于你 毛时安
Poem of the Day
How Do I Love Thee Elizabeth Barrett Browning
偶然 徐志摩
Beauty of Words
Of Love Francis Bacon
恋爱不是游戏 Love Is Not A Game
Daily Quote
生命就是且缓一口气再讲，明天再说明天的。（老舍）
Poem of the Day
Three Shadows Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beauty of Words
On Pleasure Epicurus
Be Happy! Lloyd Morris
Daily Quote
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire. (François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld)
Poem of the Day
Be the Best of Whatever You Are Douglas Malloch
Beauty of Words
Legato By Lisa Devita
Daily Quote
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg)
Poem of the Day
卜算子·咏梅 陆游
Beauty of Words
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy
Daily Quote
You never know what you can do till you try. (Frederick Marryat)
Poem of the Day
"Nature" is what we see Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
下雪的季节 周领顺
Daily Quote
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. (Anne Bradstreet)
Poem of the Day
立春古律 朱淑真
春 徐志摩
Beauty of Words
兰亭集序 王羲之
Daily Quote
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hello of Heaven. (John Milton)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 5 William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
我和北大图书馆 季羡林
Daily Quote
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. (Antisthenes)
Poem of the Day
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louise Stevenson
Beauty of Words Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
Daily Quote
You never know what you can do till you try. (Frederick Marryat)
Poem of the Day
The Dalliance of the Eagles Walt Whitman
Beauty of Words
下雪的季节 周领顺
Daily Quote
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. (James Dean)
Poem of the Day
智慧之歌 穆旦
Beauty of Words
Guy de Maupassant to Marie Bashkirtseff
Daily Quote
Self-conquest is the greatest of all victories. (Plato)
Poem of the Day
"Nature" is what we see Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
Thank You, M’am Langston Hughs
Daily Quote
What is a man’s first duty? The answer is brief; to be himself. (Henrik Ibsen)
Poem of the Day
After the Winter by Claude McKay
Beauty of Words Winter Mist Robert Palfrey Utter
Daily Quote
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. (Antisthenes)
Poem of the Day
黄鹤楼 崔颢
Beauty of Words
Anne of Green Gables Lucy Maud Montgomery
Daily Quote
Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times. (Voltaire)
Poem of the Day
The Land of Counterpane Robert Louise Stevenson
Beauty of Words
鸲鹆 蒲松龄
Daily Quote
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance cease to be a virtue. (Edmund Burke)
Poem of the Day
On His Deceased Wife John Milton
江城子 苏轼
Beauty of Words
瀑布与石头 许达然
Daily Quote
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne)
Poem of the Day
从军行七首·其四 王昌龄
Beauty of Words
The Tell-tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe
Daily Quote
What is a man’s first duty? The answer is brief; to be himself. (Henrik Ibsen)
Poem of the Day
After the Winter by Claude McKay
Beauty of Words
婚姻鞋 毕淑敏
Daily Quote
It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Poem of the Day
腊日 陶渊明
Beauty of Words
Winter Mist Robert Palfrey Utter
Daily Quote
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg)
Poem of the Day
Bring, in This Timeless Grave to Throw Alfred Edward Houseman
Beauty of Words
静心的妙招 高冬梅
Daily Quote
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears. (Benjamin Franklin)
Poem of the Day
Unlike Are We Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beauty of Words
柿树 玉汝
Daily Quote
If you are working on something that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you. (Steve Jobs)
Poem of the Day
To Winter William Blake
Beauty of Words
Evolution John Galsworthy
Daily Quote
Pride increases our enemies, but puts our friends to flight. (Aesop)
Poem of the Day
He Ate and Drank the Precious Words Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
我有一个志愿 老舍
Daily Quote
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. (Joshua Reynolds)
Poem of the Day
With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb’st the Skies Phillip Sidney
Beauty of Words
A Bouquet for Miss Benson (Excerpt) Paul Villard
不知不觉中，寒暑交替，我们又匆匆走过了一年，今天的这一期节目就让我们一起来重温一下过去一年中，《美文阅读》曾和大家一起分享过的那些句子、诗歌和美文片段，让我们在回忆中感受文字的美好和力量，也为新的一年、新的出发做好准备。
Daily Quote
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. (Carl Sandburg)
Poem of the Day
卜算子·咏梅 陆游
Beauty of Words
Resurrection Leo Tolstoy
Daily Quote
After the verb to love, to help is the most beautiful verb in the world. (Thomas Huxley)
Poem of the Day
Bring, in This Timeless Grave to Throw Alfred Edward Houseman
Beauty of Words
静心的妙招 高冬梅
Daily Quote
We can only love what we know and we can never know completely what we do not love. (Thomas Huxley)
Poem of the Day
夜游宫·记梦寄师伯浑 陆游
Beauty of Words
The Imaginary Invalid By Jerome K. Jerome
Daily Quote
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. (George Bernard Shaw)
Poem of the Day
白雪歌送武判官归京 岑参
Beauty of Words
A Bouquet for Miss Benson (Excerpt) Paul Villard
Daily Quote
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde)
Poem of the Day
With How Sad Steps, O Moon, Thou Climb’st the Skies Phillip Sidney
Beauty of Words
A Winter Walk Henry David Thoreau
Daily Quote
If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency. (Joshua Reynolds)
Poem of the Day
Goblin Market By Christina Rossetti
Beauty of Words
湖心亭看雪 张岱
Daily Quote
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Poem of the Day
Ditty of First Desire Garcia Lorca
Beauty of Words I Am Nature's Greatest Miracle. Og Mandino
Daily Quote
Pride increases our enemies, but puts our friends to flight. (Aesop)
Poem of the Day
夜游宫·记梦寄师伯浑 陆游
Beauty of Words
Sir Walter Raleigh to His Wife
Daily Quote
To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation. (Socrates)
Poem of the Day
八声甘州 柳永
Beauty of Words
To Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau
Daily Quote
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Poem of the Day
Dover Beach Matthew Arnold
Beauty of Words
The Love of Beauty John Ruskin
Now is the Best Time to be Happy
Daily Quote
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
渡荆门送别 李白
Beauty of Words
Fiodor Dostoevsky to His Brother Mihail
Daily Quote
We can’t all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (Will Rogers)
Poem of the Day
A Man and a Woman Sit Near Each Other Robert Bly
Beauty of Words
牵牛花 叶圣陶
Daily Quote
Better a frank denial than unwilling compliance. (Victor Hugo)
Poem of the Day
No Sorrow, No Calls, No Tears Sergey Yesenin
Beauty of Words
常胜的歌手/互助 王蒙
Daily Quote
To care for wisdom and truth and the improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation. (Socrates)
Poem of the Day
Ditty of First Desire Garcia Lorca
Beauty of Words
The Widow and Her Son (2) Washington Irving
Daily Quote
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Poem of the Day
八声甘州 柳永
Beauty of Words
The Widow and Her Son (1) Washington Irving
Daily Quote
Conceit may puff a man up, but it can never prop him up. (John Ruskin)
Poem of the Day
Two Rivulets Walt Whitman
Beauty of Words
致拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生 亨利·戴维·梭罗
Daily Quote
Trees, when they are lopped and cut, grow up again in short time, but men, being once lost, cannot easily be recovered. (Plutarch)
Poem of the Day
Sleeping In The Forest by Mary Oliver
Beauty of Words
种梨 蒲松龄
Daily Quote
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus. (Bruce Lee)
Poem of the Day
No Sorrow, No Calls, No Tears Sergey Yesenin
Beauty of Words
Eveline (2) James Joyce
Daily Quote
Better a frank denial than unwilling compliance. (Victor Hugo)
Poem of the Day
November Hartley Coleridge
Beauty of Words
Eveline (1) James Joyce
Daily Quote
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. (Maya Angelou)
Poem of the Day
Rose Pierre de Ronsard
Beauty of Words
常胜的歌手/互助 王蒙
Daily Quote
The smell of new things is too strong, their exhausted minds can not stand, and must dilute the taste by time. A work of art must be full of adult dust before anyone can comprehend it. (Stendhal)
Poem of the Day
秋风辞 刘彻
Beauty of Words
The Cobbler and the Banker La Fontaine
Daily Quote
Trees, when they are lopped and cut, grow up again in short time, but men, being once lost, cannot easily be recovered. (Plutarch)
Poem of the Day
November William Cullen Bryant
Beauty of Words
牛 叶圣陶
Daily Quote
Some people succeed because they are destined to, but most people succeed because they are determined to. (Charles Dickens)
Poem of the Day
Sleeping In The Forest by Mary Oliver
Beauty of Words
种梨 蒲松龄
Daily Quote
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. (Moliere)
Poem of the Day
Love’s Philosophy Percy B. Shelley
Beauty of Words
秋兴 赵丽宏
Daily Quote
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hello of Heaven. (John Milton)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 5 William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
我和北大图书馆 季羡林
Daily Quote
The smell of new things is too strong, their exhausted minds can not stand, and must dilute the taste by time. A work of art must be full of adult dust before anyone can comprehend it. (Stendhal)
Poem of the Day
秋钟 赵元任
Beauty of Words
I Am Nature's Greatest Miracle Og Mandino
Daily Quote
The past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Poem of the Day
杂诗二首·其一 曹丕
Beauty of Words
The Cobbler and the Banker La Fontaine
Daily Quote
The promised land always lies on the other side of a wilderness. (Havelock Ellis)
Poem of the Day
秋风辞 刘彻
Beauty of Words
Of Fame Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Thomas Edison)
Poem of the Day
Epigram on Milton John Dryden
Beauty of Words
怒 梁实秋
Daily Quote
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster errors, and never to give advice which may annoy. (Moliere)
Poem of the Day
Love’s Philosophy Percy B. Shelley
Beauty of Words
秋兴 赵丽宏
Daily Quote
When your will is ready, your feet are light. (George Herbert)
Poem of the Day
My November Guest Robert Frost
Beauty of Words
A Letter from Qian Zhongshu
Daily Quote
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hello of Heaven. (John Milton)
Poem of the Day
Sonnet 5 William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
我和北大图书馆 季羡林
Daily Quote
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Thomas Edison)
Poem of the Day
Besides the Autumn Poets Sing Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
A Room with A View Edward Morgan Forster
Daily Quote
You run from one place to another, but you are still you. You can't escape from your body. (Ernest Hemingway)
Poem of the Day
饮酒·结庐在人境 陶渊明
Beauty of Words
A Rose for Emily William Faulkner
Daily Quote
Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. (Marcel Proust)
Poem of the Day
蝶恋花·赠前年冬相识之女友 郁达夫
Beauty of Words
Promise of Bluebirds Joanne J. Henry
Daily Quote
That man is the richest whose pleasure are the cheapest. (Henry David Thoreau)
Poem of the Day
To — By Persy Bysshe Shelly
Beauty of Words
秋天的怀念 史铁生
Daily Quote
God! What would I forfeit to have the days of my childhood restored, or to be able to forget them forever! (Charles Dickens)
Poem of the Day
On Aging Maya Angelou
九月九日忆山东兄弟 王维
采桑子·重阳 毛泽东
Beauty of Words
An October Sunrise Richard Blackmore
Daily Quote
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. (Thomas Edison)
Poem of the Day
霜花 戴望舒
Beauty of Words
Stories on a Headboard Elaine Pondant
Daily Quote
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green and blossom, but we hope it, we know it. (Wolfgang von Goethe)
Poem of the Day
Besides the Autumn Poets Sing Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
怒 梁实秋
Daily Quote
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. (Michel de Montaigne)
Poem of the Day
Epigram on Milton John Dryden
Beauty of Words
A Room with A View Edward Morgan Forster
Daily Quote
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. (Edward de Bono)
Poem of the Day
Dover Beach Matthew Arnold
Beauty of Words
离别 郑振铎
Daily Quote
The trees are in their autumn beauty. The woodland paths are dry. Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky. (William Butler Yeats)
Poem of the Day
十月独行 林徽因
Beauty of Words
An October Sunrise Richard Blackmore
Daily Quote
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty. (Coco Chanel)
Poem of the Day
九月九日忆山东兄弟 王维
Beauty of Words
The Date Father Didn’t Keep Robert Zacks
Daily Quote
God! What would I forfeit to have the days of my childhood restored, or to be able to forget them forever! (Charles Dickens)
Poem of the Day
Nostalgia Karl Shapiro
Beauty of Words
月光祭 林祁
Daily Quote
The worst tragic element in life is to believe in bad luck. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Poem of the Day
一念 胡适
Beauty of Words
Westminster Abbey Washington Irving
Daily Quote
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso)
Poem of the Day
The day Robert Lowell
Beauty of Words
长江口的芦苇荡 张守仁
Daily Quote
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. (Henrik Ibsen)
Poem of the Day
The Gulf Katherine Mansfield
哀曼殊斐尔 徐志摩
Beauty of Words
Trust Andy Rooney
Daily Quote
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. (Voltaire)
Poem of the Day
扬州慢·淮左名都 姜夔
Beauty of Words
The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life Benjamin Franklin
Daily Quote
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
No Birds in Sight Ivan Bunin
Beauty of Words
牵牛花 叶圣陶
Daily Quote
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations. (Edward de Bono)
Poem of the Day
大德歌·秋 关汉卿
Beauty of Words
The Kite Runner (Chapter 2) Khaled Hosseini
Daily Quote
A certain amount of care or pain or trouble is necessary for every man at all times. A ship without a ballast is unstable and will not go straight. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Poem of the Day
Dover Beach Matthew Arnold
Beauty of Words
The Love of Beauty John Ruskin
Daily Quote
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
To Louisa in the Lane by Thomas Hardy
Beauty of Words
上屋顶看星星 江儿
Daily Quote
We can’t all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. (Will Rogers)
Poem of the Day
A Man and a Woman Sit Near Each Other Robert Bly
Beauty of Words
牵牛花 叶圣陶
Daily Quote
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. (Caesar)
Poem of the Day
关河令·秋阴时晴渐向暝 周邦彦
Beauty of Words
The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life Benjamin Franklin
Poem of the Day
野望 王绩
Ode to Autumn John Keats
秋来之后 席慕容
Autumn Evening Robinson Jeffers
十五夜望月 王建
望月怀远 张九龄
Daily Quote
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)
Poem of the Day
Intermezzo No. 55 Gustavo Becquer
Beauty of Words
The Blanket By Floyd Dell
Daily Quote
Happy are the families where the government of parents is the reign of affection, and obedience of the children the submission of love. (Francis Bacon)
Poem of the Day
To Louisa in the Lane by Thomas Hardy
雨巷 戴望舒
Beauty of Words
Be Happy! Lloyd Morris
Daily Quote
Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave. The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
渡荆门送别 李白
Beauty of Words
Fiodor Dostoevsky to His Brother Mihail
Daily Quote
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. (Leo Tolstoy)
Poem of the Day
No Birds in Sight Ivan Bunin
Beauty of Words
上屋顶看星星 江儿
Poem of the Day
Love at Sea By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Beauty of Words
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination (1) J.K. Rowling
Daily Quote
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. (Aristotle)
Poem of the Day
己亥杂诗·浩荡离愁白日斜 龚自珍
Beauty of Words
D.H. Lawrence to John Middleton Murray
Daily Quote
Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. (George Eliot)
Poem of the Day
Intermezzo No. 55 Gustavo Becquer
Beauty of Words
我有一个志愿 老舍
Daily Quote
Whenever you have an aim you must sacrifice something of freedom to attain it. (W.S. Maugham)
Poem of the Day
江南旅情 祖咏
Beauty of Words
The Blanket By Floyd Dell
Daily Quote
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. (Caesar)
Poem of the Day
关河令·秋阴时晴渐向暝 周邦彦
Beauty of Words
The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life Benjamin Franklin
Daily Quote
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it. (Maya Angelou)
Poem of the Day
Love at Sea By Algernon Charles Swinburne
Beauty of Words
The Falls of Niagara Charles Dickens
Daily Quote
All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made. (Virginia Woolf)
Poem of the Day
观沧海 曹操
Beauty of Words
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination (2) J.K. Rowling
Daily Quote
Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! (Jane Austen)
Poem of the Day
With Rue My Heart is Laden Alfred Houseman
Beauty of Words
The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination (2) J.K. Rowling
Daily Quote
万物各得其和以生，各得其养以成。（荀子）
Poem of the Day
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words On Cottages in General Helen Allingham & Stewart Dick
Daily Quote
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. (Samuel Johnson)
Poem of the Day
关河令·秋阴时晴渐向暝 周邦彦
Beauty of Words
The Pleasure of Reading Anonymous
Daily Quote
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. (Voltaire)
Poem of the Day
扬州慢·淮左名都 姜夔
Beauty of Words
The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life Benjamin Franklin
Daily Quote
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see. (Caesar)
Poem of the Day
One Art By Elizabeth Bishop
Beauty of Words
寒暑计 施蛰存
风·火·煤·山 施蛰存
Daily Quote
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. (William James)
Poem of the Day
The Solitary By Sara Teasdale
Beauty of Words
Ambition Joseph Epstein
Daily Quote
万物各得其和以生，各得其养以成。（荀子）
Poem of the Day
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea William Shakespeare
Beauty of Words
两种观河的方式 马克·吐温
Daily Quote
We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. (T.S. Eliot)
Poem of the Day
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Beauty of Words
繁星 巴金
Daily Quote
Weep no more, no sigh, nor groan. Sorrow calls no time that's gone. (John Fletcher)
Poem of the Day
Dreams – are well – but Waking’s better Emily Dickinson
Beauty of Words
On Cottages in General Helen Allingham & Stewart Dick
Daily Quote
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew? The tear, by the smile, is made precious above the smile itself. (Walter Savage Landor)
Poem of the Day
Silentium Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev
Beauty of Words
忘了过去就是犯罪 冯亦代
Daily Quote
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove. (Samuel Johnson)
Poem of the Day
二郎神·七夕 柳永
Beauty of Words
Ambition Joseph Epstein
Daily Quote
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. (Vincent Van Gogh)
Poem of the Day
The Solitary By Sara Teasdale
Beauty of Words
大师的背影（下） 赵丽宏
Daily Quote
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome. (William James)
Poem of the Day
You Are like A flower Heinrich Heine
Beauty of Words
大师的背影（上） 赵丽宏
Daily Quote
In this world, desire is not pain, it can make the sense become acute, it is the inner symbol of a person's youth. (Ernest Hemingway)
Poem of the Day
The Gulf Katherine Mansfield
哀曼殊斐儿 徐志摩
Beauty of Words
父子 程习武
Daily Quote
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. (Walt Disney)
Poem of the Day
I saw thee weep George Gordon Byron
Beauty of Words
The Battle of the Red and the Black Ants Henry David Thoreau
Daily Quote
A smile is ever the most bright and beautiful with a tear upon it. What is the dawn without its dew? The tear, by the smile, is made precious above the smile itself. (Walter Savage Landor)
Poem of the Day
Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Pablo Neruda
Beauty of Words
Butterfly Kisses Meria Rainer
Daily Quote
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control thoughts. (Charles Robert Darwin)
Poem of the Day
Silentium Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev
Beauty of Words
生命 何为
Daily Quote
It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all labor, I may at last pull up. (Michael Faraday)
Poem of the Day
The Chance To Love Everything Mary Oliver
Beauty of Words
Aurangzeb to Mullah Sahe
Daily Quote
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. (Langston Hughes)
Poem of the Day
Variation on the Word “Sleep” Margaret Atwood
Beauty of Words
父子 程习武
Daily Quote
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. (Henrik Ibsen)
Poem of the Day
The Gulf Katherine Mansfield
哀曼殊斐儿 徐志摩
Beauty of Words
Trust Andy Rooney
Daily Quote
In this world, desire is not pain, it can make the sense become acute, it is the inner symbol of a person's youth. (Ernest Hemingway)
Poem of the Day
无怨的青春 席慕容
Beauty of Words
Aurangzeb to Mullah Sahe
Daily Quote
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford)
Poem of the Day
The Echoing Green William Blake
Beauty of Words
一句好话 张晓风
Daily Quote
It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all labor, I may at last pull up. (Michael Faraday)
Poem of the Day
赠别 顾城
Beauty of Words
The Age of Thrills Robert Lynd
Daily Quote
One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. (Anne Bronte)
Poem of the Day
The Wondrous Moment of Our Meeting by Alexander Pushkin
Beauty of Words
窗 钱钟书
Daily Quote
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. (Bertrand Russell)
Poem of the Day
Sleep-stealer Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words Rupert Brooke to Edward Marsh
Daily Quote
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Poem of the Day
热爱生命 汪国真
Beauty of Words
Split-Second Decision Charity Gibson
Daily Quote
If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (John Bunyan)
Poem of the Day
If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
Beauty of Words 论包装 季羡林
Daily Quote
Fate fears the brave and bullies the timid. (Lucius Seneca)
Poem of the Day
Light John Milton
Beauty of Words
Habit William James
Daily Quote
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. (Rabindranath Tagore)
Poem of the Day
The Fountain James Russel Lowell
Beauty of Words
一句好话 张晓风
Daily Quote
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. (Elbert Hubbard)
Poem of the Day
The Chance To Love Everything Mary Oliver
Beauty of Words
Friendship Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daily Quote
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. (Mark Twain)
Poem of the Day
The Echoing Green William Blake
Beauty of Words
Of Regiment of Health By Francis Bacon
Daily Quote
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. (Henry Ford)
Poem of the Day
Upon Westminster Bridge By William Wordsworth
Beauty of Words
忘了过去就是犯罪 冯亦代
Daily Quote
If you should put even a little on a little, and should do this often, soon this too would become big. (Hesiod)
Poem of the Day
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe
Beauty of Words
生命总不成熟 韩小蕙
Daily Quote
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso)
Poem of the Day
Say over again, and yet once over again by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Beauty of Words
A Pair of Woodpeckers
Daily Quote
Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness. (Euripides)
Poem of the Day
赠汪伦 李白
Love and Friendship by Emily Bronte
Beauty of Words
Friendship Ralph Waldo Emerson
Daily Quote
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. (Elbert Hubbard)
Poem of the Day
The Chance To Love Everything Mary Oliver
Beauty of Words
Mme von Meck to Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to Mme von Meck
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过零丁洋 文天祥
雪梅 卢梅坡
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On the Fear of Death by William Hazlitt
谈生命 冰心
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The latter part of a wise man’s life is taken up in curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions he had contracted in the former. (Jonathan Swift)
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A Pause Christina Georgina Rossetti
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A Pair of Woodpeckers
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. (Pearl Buck)
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Say over again, and yet once over again by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Rafting down the Neckar Mark Twain
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. (Pablo Picasso)
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The Day By Robert Lowell
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长江口的芦苇荡（节选） 张守仁
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We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom. (Michel de Montaigne)
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A Match Algernon Charles Swinburne
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A Bloom to Last Forever Clinton Griffith
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We always have time enough, if we will but use it alright. (Johan Wolfgang von Goethe)
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Love after Love Derek Walcott
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On the Fear of Death by William Hazlitt
谈生命 冰心
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A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. (Paulo Coelho)
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一念 胡适
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To Charlotte Bronte Robert Southey
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Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. (T.S. Eliot)
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The Golden Sunset Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A Bloom to Last Forever Clinton Griffith
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A man may well bring a horse to the water, but he cannot make him drink. (John Heywood)
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A Match Algernon Charles Swinburne
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爱梦想的羞怯女孩 在美
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We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can not be wise with other men’s wisdom. (Michel de Montaigne)
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酬李郢夏日钓鱼回见示 鱼玄机
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On Going A Journey William Hazlitt
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Fate fears the brave and bullies the timid. (Lucius Seneca)
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Light John Milton
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散书偶感 何为
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Chance favors the minds that are prepared. (Louis Pasteur)
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Tree at My Window Robert Frost
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To Charlotte Bronte Robert Southey
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The worst tragic element in life is to believe in bad luck. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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一念 胡适
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Westminster Abbey Washington Irving
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A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. (Paulo Coelho)
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池上 白居易
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Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Gift Czesław Miłosz
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The Most Important Day in My Life Helen Keller
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Fate fears the brave and bullies the timid. (Lucius Seneca)
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I Saw in Louisiana A Live-Oak Growing By Walt Whitman
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Childhood Leo Tolstoy
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Mistakes are an essential part of education. (Bertrand Russell)
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Light John Milton
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散书偶感 何为
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富贵不能淫，贫贱不能移，威武不能屈，此之谓大丈夫。（孟子）
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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time By Robert Herrick
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Habit William James
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When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. (Zig Ziglar)
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舟夜书所见 查慎行
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A Fable for Tomorrow Rachel Carson
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Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. (Khalil Gibran)
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Sonnet 55: Not marble nor the gilded monuments By William Shakespeare
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The World As I See It Albert Einstein
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I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. (Roald Dahl)
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Gift Czesław Miłosz
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英译中国现代散文选（四）P152
上海菜市场 季羡林
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. (F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby)
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岸 北岛
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The Most Important Day in My Life Helen Keller
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My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The Handsome and Deformed Leg Benjamin Franklin
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When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. (Zig Ziglar)
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A Ditty Philip Sidney
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饥饿 谢冰莹
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Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. (Da Vinci)
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舟夜书所见 查慎行
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How to read Virginia Woolf
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Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. (Aristotle)
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Break, Break, Break Alfred Tennyson
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A Fable for Tomorrow Rachel Carson
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Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike. (Madame de Stael)
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Nature Christopher Marlowe
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Walking Tour Robert Louis Stevenson
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There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. (Gilbert Chesterton)
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Maid of Athens, Ere We Part by George Gordon Byron
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The Handsome and Deformed Leg Benjamin Franklin
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if twice, shame on me. (John Ray)
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If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
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Man’s Youth Thomas Wolfe
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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. (Euripides)
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My Lost Youth Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Advice to Youth Mark Twain
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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Reeds of Innocence William Blake
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About Books John Ruskin
我之于书 夏丏尊
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Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike. (Madame de Stael)
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Ode to Solitude Alexander Pope
酬张少府 王维
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Love Your Life Henry David Thoreau
Hours in the Sun John Bradley
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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s. (Jean Paul Richter)
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Nature Christopher Marlowe
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午后黑管两三声 苏叶
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A little knowledge is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. (William White)
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Batter My Heart John Donne
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The Rambler Samuel Johnson
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. (Oscar Wilde)
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观书有感 朱熹
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About Books John Ruskin
我之于书 夏丏尊
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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热爱生命 汪国真
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Split-Second Decision Charity Gibson
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假作真时真亦假，无为有处有还无。（《红楼梦》）
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Reeds of Innocence William Blake
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Friendship Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. (Wilkie Collins)
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A Prayer in Spring Robert Frost
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一只木屐 冰心
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A little knowledge is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. (William White)
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April Rain Song By Langston Hughs
滁州西涧 韦应物
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The Windmill Edward Lucas
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Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth, because they don’t want their illusions destroyed. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
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Weeping Gustavo Becquer
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献你一束花 冯骥才
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Working hard is important, but there is something that matters even more: believing in yourself. (J.K. Rowling)
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镜中 张枣
Beauty of Words A White Heron S.O. Jewett
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It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. (Richard Jefferies)
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清明 黄庭坚
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Araby James Joyce
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If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (John Bunyan)
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If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
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论包装 季羡林
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To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. (Wilkie Collins)
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April William Carlos Williams
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一只木屐 冰心
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All the bright precious things fade so fast…and they don’t come back. (The Great Gatsby)
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祈祷 余光中
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Dream Children Charles Lamb
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Those who can not do trivial things can not accomplish great things. (Lomonosov)
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A Prayer in Spring Robert Frost
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Dream Children (1) Charles Lamb
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. (Bertrand Russell) Poem of the Day
Sleep-stealer Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty of Words Rupert Brooke to Edward Marsh
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If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if twice, shame on me. (John Ray)
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If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
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Man’s Youth Thomas Wolfe
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If you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (John Bunyan)
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木兰花·立春日作 陆游
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A Handful of Clay Henry van Dyke
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The man who will live above his present circumstances is in danger of living, in a little time, much beneath him. (Samuel Smiles)
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A March Snow Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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论包装 季羡林
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One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather. (Anne Bronte)
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Primaveral Ruben Dario
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Spell of the Rising Moon Peter Steinhart
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上士忘名，中士立名，下士窃名。（颜之推）
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The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge by Hart Crane
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Rupert Brooke to Edward Marsh
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. (Maxim Gorky)
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Sleep-stealer Rabindranath Tagore
Why A Classic Is A Classic (2) Arnold Bennett
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To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. (Bertrand Russell)
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Written in March William Wordsworth
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Why A Classic Is A Classic (1) Arnold Bennett
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. (Thomas Huxley)
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To a Waterfowl By William Cullen Bryant
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Over the Hill John Steinbeck
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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world. (John Locke)
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Trees Joyce Kilmer
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Spell of the Rising Moon Peter Steinhart
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Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead. Walk beside me… just be my friend. (Albert Camus)
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Primaveral Ruben Dario
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窗 钱钟书
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You can choose your friends but you shouldn’t and can't choose your family, and they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge them or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't. (The Catcher in the Rye)
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The Wondrous Moment of Our Meeting by Alexander Pushkin
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A Hard Day in the Kitchen Shannon Hodge
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If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. (Thomas Huxley)
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过零丁洋 文天祥
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers Maria Augusta von Trapp
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We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. (Joseph Cambell)
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Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night Dylan Thomas
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Over the Hill John Steinbeck
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The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth. (Leo Tolstoy)
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To a Waterfowl By William Cullen Bryant
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泡菜坛子 李汉荣
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Love is like a box of chocolates. You’ll never know what you will get.
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The Orange Wendy Cope
Beauty of Words My Average Uncle Robert P. Tristram Coffin
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You can choose your friends but you shouldn’t and can't choose your family, and they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge them or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.
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The Ballad of What the Wind Said Rafael Alberti
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A Hard Day in the Kitchen Shannon Hodge