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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. (William Butler Yeats)

Poem of the Day

The Woodpecker Keeps Returning
Jane Hirshifield

Beauty of Words

爱美
袁昌英

美文阅读 | 啄木鸟不断归来 The Woodpecker Keeps Returning (简·赫斯菲尔德)

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Daily Quote

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor. (Euripides)

Poem of the Day

My Lost Youth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Beauty of Words

Advice to Youth 
Mark Twain

美文阅读 | 我失去的青春 My Lost Youth (亨利·沃兹沃斯·朗费罗)

Daily Quote

Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. (Dmitri Mendeleev)

Poem of the Day

悯农其二
李绅

Beauty of Words

愚公移山

The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway

美文阅读 | 悯农 Commiserating with the Farmers (李绅)

Daily Quote

What 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 Day

Grass
By Carl Sandburg

Beauty of Words

我与地坛（第二节）
史铁生

美文阅读 | 我与地坛 In the Temple of Earth (史铁生)

Poem of the Day

To Music
Rainer Maria Rilke

Beauty of Words

My Father's Music
Wayne Kalyn

美文阅读 | 我父亲的音乐 My Father's Music (韦恩·卡林)

Daily Quote

It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting. (Paulo Coelho)

Poem of the Day

Going
Philip Larkin

Beauty of Words

寻找女人与狗
王蒙

美文阅读 | 啄木鸟不断归来 The Woodpecker Keeps Returning (简·赫斯菲尔德)

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