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Opening Quote
 
 Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps. (Charlotte Brontë)
 
 Classics Recited
 
 黄鹂
 徐志摩
 
 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
 By William Wordsworth

Opening Quote
 
 桃之夭夭，灼灼其华。
 之子于归，宜其室家。
 
 Classics Recited
 
 题都城南庄
 崔护

Opening Quote
 
 一年之计在于春。（《增广贤文》）
 
 Classics Recited
 
 春的消​息
 
 冰心

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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