Episodes
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
Published 09/22/24
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
Published 09/21/24
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
Published 09/19/24
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
Published 09/17/24
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
Published 09/15/24
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
Published 09/14/24
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
Published 09/12/24
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
Published 09/10/24
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
Published 09/08/24
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
Published 09/07/24
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
Published 09/05/24
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
Published 09/03/24
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
Published 09/01/24
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
Published 08/31/24
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
Published 08/29/24
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
Published 08/27/24
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
Published 08/25/24
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
Published 08/24/24
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
Published 08/22/24
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
Published 08/20/24
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
Published 08/18/24
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
Published 08/17/24
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
Published 08/15/24
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
Published 08/13/24
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
Published 08/11/24