In the equinox, day and night shake hands, exchanging the baton of time in the relay race of the seasons. (Albert Camus)

咏二十四气诗·春分二月中

元稹

Opening Quote

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. (Rainer Maria Rilke)

Classics Recited

惠崇春江晚景二首・其一

苏轼

北平的春天

周作人

咏柳

贺知章

青门柳

白居易

等闲识得东风面，万紫千红总是春。（朱熹）

A Light exists in Spring

Emily Dickinson

初春

顾城

仲春遘时雨，始雷发东隅。众蛰各潜骇，草木纵横舒。（陶渊明《拟古》）

微雨众卉新，一雷惊蛰始。田家几日闲，耕种从此起。（韦应物《观田家》）

阳气初惊蛰，韶光大地周。桃花开蜀锦，鹰老化春鸠。（元稹《咏二十四气歌·惊蛰二月节》）

Opening Quote

When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears. (Henry David Thoreau)

雪化了，土地是黑的。黑色的土地里，长出了茵陈蒿。碧绿。葡萄藤露出来了，乌黑的。有的梢头已经绽开了芽苞，吐出指甲大的苍白的小叶。它已经等不及了。（汪曾祺）

Classics Recited

春晓

孟浩然

Spring

by Thomas Nashe

春

朱自清

Daily Quote

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop. (Lewis Carroll)

Poem of the Day

定风波

苏轼

Beauty of Words

Once More to the Lake

Elwyn Brooks White

Daily Quote

An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. (Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus)

Poem of the Day

Shall earth no more inspire thee

By Emily Brontë

Beauty of Words

落叶

王蒙

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

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