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Daily QuoteOne should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. (Oscar Wilde)Poem of the DayWhat can I hold you with?By Jorge Luis BorgesBeauty of Words夏至(节选)史振亚
Daily QuoteNature never deceives us; it is always us who deceive ourselves. (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)Poem of the Day错误郑愁予Beauty of WordsThinking Like a Mountain Aldo Leopold
Daily QuoteCattlemen who cleared their ranges of wolves did not realize that they were taking over the wolf's job of adjusting the number of cattle to the size of the pasture. They have not learned to think like a mountain. Hence we have dustbowls, and rivers carrying future soils to the sea. (Aldo Leopold)Poem of the Day满庭芳·夏日溧水无想山作周邦彦Beauty of Words我的第一位美国老师冯亦代
Daily QuoteGrander than the sea is the sky, grander than the sky is the conscience. (Victor Hugo)Poem of the DayThe Summer DayMary OliverBeauty of WordsOn Cottages in GeneralHelen Allingham & Stewart Dick
Daily QuoteThere is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth. (Leo Tolstoy)Poem of the Day初夏即事王安石Beauty of WordsMartin EdenJack London
Daily QuoteDo not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)Poem of the DayThe WaveHilda DoolittleBeauty of Words假如我有九条命余光中
Daily QuoteI cannot choose the best. The best chooses me. (Rabindranath Tagore)Poem of the DayThe Road Not Takenby Robert FrostBeauty of WordsNorwegian WoodHaruki Murakami
Daily QuoteIn early June, the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different. (John Steinbeck)Poem of the DaySummer Night, RiversideBy Sara TeasdaleBeauty of WordsPride and PrejudiceBy Jane Austen
Daily QuoteIf you want your children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. (John Bunyan)你若希望你的孩子总是能够脚踏实地,那就要让他们承担一些责任。(约翰•班扬)Poem of the Day村居高鼎稚子弄冰杨万里Beauty of WordsThe Wind in the WillowsKenneth Grahame
Daily Quote五月五日午,赠我一枝艾。(文天祥)Poem of the Day浣溪沙·端午苏轼Beauty of Words端午的鸭蛋汪曾祺
Daily QuoteDo not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. (Pythagoras)Poem of the Day约客宋・赵师秀Beauty of WordsA letter from a father to a son – Ted Hughes to his son Nicholas
Daily QuoteThe least possible amount of sin is the law of man: no sin at all is the dream of angels. All that is earthly is subjected to sin, for sin is a gravitation. (Victor Hugo)Poem of the DayThe WaveHilda DoolittleBeauty of Words假如我有九条命余光中
Daily QuoteWhere fierce indignation can no longer tear his heart. Poem of the DayThe Wild IrisLouise GlückBeauty of Words冬牧场李娟
Daily QuoteTime is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light. (Thales of Miletus)Poem of the DayEver and Ever I Feel ItHerman HesseBeauty of Words槐花季羡林
Daily QuoteHope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. (Stephen King)Poem of the Day小满欧阳修Beauty of Words喝茶梁实秋
Daily QuoteLife is not as good as you imagine, but it is not as bad as you think. (Guy de Maupassant)Poem of the DayDunesBy A. R. AmmonsBeauty of WordsOf Studiesby Francis Bacon
Daily QuoteI don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)Poem of the Day四时田园杂兴范成大Beauty of Words挑山工冯骥才
Daily QuoteWhere fierce indignation can no longer tear his heart. Poem of the Day客中初夏司马光Beauty of Words傅雷家书
Daily QuoteTo write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. (Virginia Woolf)Poem of the DayA Kumquat for John KeatsBy Tony HarrisonBeauty of Words冬牧场李娟
Daily QuoteNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. (James Baldwin)Poem of the DayThe Wild IrisLouise GlückBeauty of Words生命 何为
Daily QuoteLove 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 DaySay over again, and yet once over again,Elizabeth Barrett BrowningBeauty of Words白果树周建人
Daily QuoteA loving heart was better and stronger than wisdom. (David Copperfield)Poem of the DayThe Barren MoorsWilliam Ellery ChanningBeauty of WordsThe Green DoorO. Henry
Daily QuoteThe 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 DayWhen I was one-and-twentyA. E. HousmanBeauty of Words儿时瞿秋白
Daily QuoteWhat 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 DayGrassBy Carl SandburgBeauty of Words我与地坛(第二节)史铁生
Daily QuoteLabor is the source of all wealth, the political economists assert. It is the source of all culture. (Karl Marx)Poem of the Day四时田园杂兴四首范成大Beauty of Words挑山工冯骥才
Daily QuoteI don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what. (Jiddu Krishnamurti)Poem of the DayThe Great FigureBy William Carlos WilliamsBeauty of Words母亲做的菜梁实秋
Daily QuotePeople are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour. (Elizabeth Moon)Poem of the DayArtRalph Waldo EmersonBeauty of WordsThe Cardinal Virtue of ProseArthur Clutton-Brock
Daily QuoteUnder like circumstances, all trees would at last acquire like habits of growth. (Henry David Thoreau)Poem of the Day行行重行行 Beauty of WordsNobody Loves MeD.H. Lawrence
Daily QuoteBeing smarter than you look is better than looking smarter than you are. (Jeremy Clarkson)Poem of the Day诉衷情•小桃灼灼黄庭坚Beauty of WordsSiddharthaBy Hermann Hesse
Daily QuoteI have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. (Herman Hesse)Poem of the DayThe Peace of Wild ThingsBy Wendell BerryBeauty of Words鸟兽不可与同群冰心
Daily QuoteNot to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. (Marcus Tullius Cicero)Poem of the Day天涯李商隐Beauty of WordsBorn a CrimeTrevor Noah
Daily QuotePeople are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even hour to hour. (Elizabeth Moon)Poem of the DayArtRalph Waldo EmersonBeauty of WordsThe DuckJ.B. Priestley
Daily Quote君子之交淡如水,小人之交甘若醴。(庄子)Poem of the DayBrowning Decides To Be A PoetJorge Luis BorgesBeauty of WordsThe Cardinal Virtue of ProseArthur Clutton-Brock
Daily QuoteThey shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. (Laurence Binyon)Poem of the DayRoomsCharlotte MewBeauty of WordsThe Spring Running Rudyard Kipling
Daily QuoteI have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. (Herman Hesse)Poem of the Day春剪灰娃Beauty of WordsBall of Fat Guy de Maupassant
Daily QuoteThe past was past; whatever it has been it was no more at hand. (Thomas Hardy)Poem of the DayThe Peace of Wild ThingsBy Wendell BerryBeauty of Words鸟兽不可与同群冰心
Daily QuoteHistory is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. (W. H. Auden)Poem of the DayThe Tide Rises, the Tide FallsBy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow青青陵上柏选自《古诗十九首》Beauty of Words春的林野许地山
Daily QuoteThe world has enough for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)Poem of the DaySpringChristina RossettiBeauty of WordsMaking PicturesD.H. Lawrence
Daily QuoteThey shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. (Laurence Binyon)Poem of the Day清明日对酒高翥Beauty of Words清明丰子恺
Daily QuoteIn the long river of history, there are moments that shine like stars, illuminating the path of human progress. (Stefan Zweig)Poem of the DayRoomsCharlotte MewBeauty of WordsAdventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain
Daily QuoteThe freshness of her beauty was indeed gone, but its indescribable majesty and its indescribable charm remained. (Charles Dickens)Poem of the Day以梦为马海子Beauty of WordsThe Spring Running Rudyard Kipling
Daily QuoteYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. (Maya Angelou)Poem of the Day春夜喜雨杜甫Beauty of Words北平的春天周作人
Daily QuoteThe 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 WordsThe Monkey GardenSandra Cisneros
Daily QuoteThe world has enough for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed. (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)Poem of the DayThe Thought-FoxTed HughsBeauty of WordsThree Days to SeeHelen Keller
Daily QuoteKnow the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. (Lord Chesterfield)Poem of the DaySpringChristina RossettiBeauty of WordsMaking PicturesD.H. Lawrence
Daily QuoteLife is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. (Leonardo da Vinci)Poem of the DayOn this wondrous seaEmily DickinsonBeauty of WordsSense and SensibilityJane Austen
Daily QuoteIf you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. (Rene Descartes)Poem of the Day春风袁枚Beauty of Words北平的春天周作人
Daily QuoteYou may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. (Maya Angelou)Poem of the DayOde to a Nightingale (excerpt)By John KeatsBeauty of WordsNotes of a Native Son (2)James Baldwin
Daily QuoteThe most effective method of education is not to tell people the answers, but to ask them questions. (Socrates)Poem of the Day春夜喜雨杜甫Beauty of WordsNotes of a Native Son (1)James Baldwin
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