Daily Quote

有造境，有写境，此理想与写实二派之所由分。然二者颇难分别。因大诗人所造之境，必合乎自然，所写之境，亦必邻于理想故也。（王国维）

Poem of the Day

Remember

By Christina Rossetti

Beauty of Words

哪吒选段（《封神演义》）

Daily Quote

Torture and cruelty cannot take away the power of loving and praying. No! There is something in every human being, even the most degraded, that slavery cannot corrupt – the soul’s instinct for freedom. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Poem of the Day

Poetry

Pablo Neruda

Beauty of Words

玫瑰色的月亮

李秀鲁

Daily Quote

People who love each other shouldn't quarrel. Because they are only two, and the whole world is against them. As soon as they become estranged, the world will conquer them. (Ernest Hemingway)

Poem of the Day

赋别

郑愁予

Beauty of Words

On Reading in Bed

Alfred George Gardiner

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

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