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美文阅读 | 常德的船 The Boats of Changde (沈从文)

Daily Quote To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. (Elbert Hubbard) Poem of the Day Winter William Shakespeare Beauty of Words 常德的船 沈从文

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Dec 18
美文阅读 | 初雪 The First Snow (罗伯特·弗罗斯特)

Daily Quote Not I - not anyone else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. (Walt Whitman) Poem of the Day The First Snow James Russell Lowell Beauty of Words A Double Barrelled Detective Story Mark Twain

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Dec 16
美文阅读 | 阳光的味道 The Scent of Sunlight (林清玄)

Daily Quote 不积跬步,无以至千里;不积小流,无以成江海。(《荀子•劝学》) Poem of the Day Of Mere Being Wallace Stevens Beauty of Words 阳光的味道 林清玄

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Dec 14
美文阅读 | 大地岂不再将你吸引 Shall Earth No More Inspire Thee (艾米莉·勃朗特)

Daily Quote The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. (Voltaire) Poem of the Day Shall earth no more inspire thee By Emily Brontë Beauty of Words 落叶 王蒙

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Dec 13
美文阅读 | 忘了过去就是犯罪 Forgetting the Past Is a Crime (冯亦代)

Daily Quote Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. (George Santayana) Poem of the Day Museum WislawaSzymborska Beauty of Words 忘了过去就是犯罪 冯亦代

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Dec 11
美文阅读 | 梦与小说 Fiction and the Dream (约翰·班维尔)

Daily Quote If you can feel pain, you are alive; if you can feel the pain of others, you are human. (Leo Tolstoy) Poem of the Day He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven William Butler Yeats Beauty of Words Fiction and the Dream John Banville

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Dec 09
美文阅读 | 松梢 Pine Tree Tops (加里·斯奈德)

Daily Quote 三十年前的月亮早已沉了下去,三十年前的人也死了,然而三十年前的故事还没完——完不了。(张爱玲) Poem of the Day Pine Tree Tops Gary Snyder Beauty of Words Of Human Bondage W.S. Maugham

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Dec 07
美文阅读 | 荒凉之屋 Bleak House (查尔斯·狄更斯)

Daily Quote There is only one success--- to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Christopher Morley) Poem of the Day To a Cat Jorge Luis Borges Beauty of Words Bleak House Charles Dickens

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Dec 06
美文阅读 | 落叶 Fallen Leaves (王蒙)

Daily Quote Either write thing worth reading, or do things worth writing. (Benjamin Franklin) Poem of the Day Shall earth no more inspire thee By Emily Brontë Beauty of Words 落叶 王蒙

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Dec 04
美文阅读 | 残缺的蓝 Fragmentary Blue (罗伯特·弗罗斯特)

Daily Quote The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. (Voltaire) Poem of the Day Fragmentary Blue By Robert Frost Beauty of Words A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens

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Dec 02
美文阅读 | 风暴 The Storm (玛丽·奥利弗)

Daily Quote An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) Poem of the Day The Storm Mary Oliver Beauty of Words 骂人的艺术(节选) 梁实秋

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Nov 30
美文阅读 | 送柴侍御 Farewell to Imperial Censor Chai (王昌龄)

Daily Quote Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. (Horace) Poem of the Day 送柴侍御 王昌龄 Beauty of Words 印度洋上的秋思 徐志摩

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Nov 29
美文阅读 | 我是一个造物 I am a Creature (朱塞佩·翁加雷蒂)

Daily Quote Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. (Paulo Coelho) Poem of the Day I Am A Creature Giuseppe Ungaretti Beauty of Words Bleak House Charles Dickens

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Nov 27
美文阅读 | 致一只猫 To A Cat (博尔赫斯)

Daily Quote It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. (Lewis Carroll) Poem of the Day To a Cat Jorge Luis Borges Beauty of Words Virginia Woolf to Ethel Smyth

27m
Nov 25
美文阅读 | 宫词 Palace Verse (白居易)

Daily Quote We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side. (James Baldwin) Poem of the Day 宫词 白居易 Beauty of Words The Widow and Her Son Washington Irving

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Nov 23
美文阅读 | 达洛维夫人 Mrs. Dalloway (伍尔芙)

Daily Quote A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (George Bernard Shaw) Poem of the Day Why Flowers Change Colour Robert Herrick Beauty of Words Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

27m
Nov 22
美文阅读 | 会飞的箱子 The Flying Trunk (安徒生)

Daily Quote There is only one success--- to be able to spend your life in your own way. (Christopher Morley) Poem of the Day 送柴侍御 王昌龄 Beauty of Words The Flying Trunk (2) Hans Christian Andersen

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Nov 20
美文阅读 | 秋日偶成 Autumn Reflections (程颢)

Daily Quote Dare to begin! He who postpones living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses. (Horace) 勇于开始!拖延正途者,犹如农夫呆立河畔,待川流尽而后渡。(贺拉斯) Poem of the Day 秋日偶成 程颢 Beauty of Words The Flying Trunk (1) Hans Christian Andersen

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Nov 18
美文阅读 | 旧书满新知 I Find Plenty of News in Old Books (丹尼·海特曼)

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

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Nov 16
美文阅读 | 花儿缘何变色 Why Flowers Change Color (罗伯特·赫里克)

Daily Quote Destiny is like a dust storm; you have nowhere to hide. (Haruki Murakami) Poem of the Day Why Flowers Change Colour Robert Herrick Beauty of Words Autumnal Tints by Henry David Thoreau

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Nov 15
美文阅读 | 三重影 Three Shadows (但丁·加百列尔·罗塞蒂)

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

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Nov 13
美文阅读 | 秋思 Thoughts of Autumn (陆游)

Daily Quote A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. (George Bernard Shaw) Poem of the Day 秋思 陆游 Beauty of Words 怒 梁实秋

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Nov 11
美文阅读 | 达洛维夫人 Mrs. Dalloway (弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙)

Daily Quote 生命的意义在于付出,在于给予,而不是在于接受,也不是在于索取。(巴金) Poem of the Day 秋天 顾城 Beauty of Words Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf

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Nov 09
美文阅读 | 偷书贼 The Book Thief (马克斯·苏萨克)

Daily Quote Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind – the beauty of leaves in their ever-changing colors. (William Wordsworth) Poem of the Day Chrysanthemums ——planted for Tao Yuan Ming, who likes mum Robert Bly Beauty of Words The Book Thief Markus Zusak

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Nov 08
美文阅读 | 印度洋上的秋思 Autumn Thoughts on the Indian Ocean (徐志摩)

Daily Quote The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. (Albert Einstein) Poem of the Day Why Flowers Change Colour Robert Herrick Beauty of Words 印度洋上的秋思 徐志摩

27m
Nov 06
美文阅读 | 礼物 Gift (切斯瓦夫·米沃什)

Daily Quote Destiny is like a dust storm; you have nowhere to hide. (Haruki Murakami) Poem of the Day Gift Czesław Miłosz Beauty of Words Murder on the Orient Express Agatha Christie

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Nov 04
美文阅读 | 瑶池 The Jade Pool (李商隐)

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 (Chapter 2) E. B. White

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Nov 02
美文阅读 | 幸福 Happiness (赫尔曼·黑塞)

Daily Quote It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. (Arthur Schopenhauer) Poem of the Day Happiness Herman Hesse Beauty of Words 竹影 丰子恺

27m
Nov 01
美文阅读 | 现代小说 Modern Fiction (弗吉尼亚·伍尔芙)

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

27m
Oct 30
美文阅读 | 菊 Chrysanthemums (罗伯特·布莱)

Daily Quote There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) Poem of the Day Chrysanthemums ——planted for Tao Yuan Ming, who likes mum Robert Bly Beauty of Words The Lady of the Camellias Alexandre Dumas, fils

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Oct 28