Daily Quote So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install a lovely bookshelf on the wall. (Roald Dahl) Poem of the Day 凤栖梧•伫倚危楼风细细 柳永 Beauty of Words Introduction to "A Brief History of Time" By Karl Sagan

Daily Quote He who fears suffering, suffers already of what he fears. (Michel de Montaigne) Poem of the Day Evening Harmony Charles Pierre Baudelaire Feelings Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud Beauty of Words A Thoroughly Negative Place Albert Camus

Daily Quote A huge cherry-tree grow outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen. (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Poem of the Day Night Sky Ronald Stuart Thomas Beauty of Words 梨花 许地山

Daily Quote Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. (George Eliot) Poem of the Day A Girl Ezra Pound Beauty of Words The Rose Logan Pearsall Smith

Daily Quote I never dared be radical when young, for fear it would make me conservative when old. (Robert Frost) Poem of the Day 春江花月夜 张若虚 Beauty of Words My Travelling in Europe Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Daily Quote It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live. (Victor Hugo) Poem of the Day 送别 王之涣 Beauty of Words The Green Pasture Aldo Leopold

Daily Quote Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful. (Jim Carrey) Poem of the Day The First Jasmines By Rabindranath Tagore Beauty of Words 路畔的蔷薇 郭沫若 梨花 许地山

Daily Quote A huge cherry-tree grow outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen. (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Poem of the Day Night Sky Ronald Stuart Thomas Beauty of Words A Study in Scarlet (Excerpt) By Conan Doyle

Daily Quote 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

Daily Quote You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. (Margaret Atwood) Poem of the Day Superior Rabindranath Tagore Beauty of Words To Somebody (1891) Mark Twain

Daily Quote We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Poem of the Day 江城子·十年生死 苏轼 离思五首其四 元稹（秦大川 译） 沈园二首 陆游 浣溪沙•谁念西风独自凉 纳兰性德 Beauty of Words Charles Dickens to His Wife Charles Dickens

Daily Quote Because the road is rough and long, shall we despise the skylark’s song? (Anne Bronte) Poem of the Day 送别 王之涣 Beauty of Words The Sensible Thing (2) Scott Fitzgerald

Daily Quote It is nothing to die; it is dreadful not to live. (Victor Hugo) Poem of the Day 旅途中 林徽因 Beauty of Words The Sensible Thing (1) Scott Fitzgerald

Daily Quote A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill? (John Steinbeck) Poem of the Day London, 1802 By William Wordsworth Beauty of Words 春 丰子恺

Daily Quote It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) Poem of the Day Superior Rabindranath Tagore Beauty of Words 绿 朱自清

Daily Quote You’d be surprised how quickly the mind goes soggy in the absence of other people. One person alone is not a full person: we exist in relation to others. (Margaret Atwood) Poem of the Day 玉楼春•春恨 晏殊 Beauty of Words The Green Pasture Aldo Leopold

Daily Quote Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. (Mary Shelley) Poem of the Day To a Star Percy Bysshe Shelley Beauty of Words To Somebody (1891) Mark Twain

Daily Quote Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. (Napoleon Bonaparte) Poem of the Day 木兰花令•拟古决绝词 纳兰性德 Beauty of Words Letters from A Cat Helen Hunt Jackson

Daily Quote Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Poem of the Day London, 1802 By William Wordsworth London William Blake Beauty of Words 刹那的印象 谢冰莹

Poem of the Day 村居 高鼎 苏溪亭 戴叔伦 你是人间的四月天 林徽因 忆江南•其一 白居易 Beauty of Words 春 朱自清 春 丰子恺

Daily Quote A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well — or ill? (John Steinbeck) Poem of the Day Just before dawn Yves Bonnefoy Beauty of Words 绿衣姑娘 吴冠中

Poem of the Day A Letter from Home Mary Oliver Beauty of Words 西游记（第一章节选） 吴承恩

Daily Quote Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. (Napoleon Bonaparte) Beauty of Words Mr. Know-All (2) W.S. Maugham

Daily Quote The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life. (Alexander Pope) Poem of the Day 木兰花令•拟古决绝词 纳兰性德 Beauty of Words Mr. Know-All (1) W.S. Maugham

Daily Quote Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein) Poem of the Day 渔翁 柳宗元 Beauty of Words To Philip Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield

Daily Quote Life indeed must be measured by thought and action, not by time. (John Lubbock) Poem of the Day Song of Open Road Walt Whitman Beauty of Words 一座长桥 金圣华

Daily Quote What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. (Geoffrey Chaucer) Poem of the Day A Letter from Home Mary Oliver Beauty of Words 枉凝眉；葬花吟；黛玉容貌；王熙凤容貌；聪明累；晴雯；终身误

Daily Quote The man who views the world at 50 the same he did at 20 has wasted thirty years of his life. (Muhammad Ali) Poem of the Day Beginning Rupert Brooke Beauty of Words Letters from A Cat Helen Hunt Jackson

Daily Quote Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. (Roald Dahl) Poem of the Day Over Hill, over Dale by William Shakespeare Beauty of Words 西游记（第一章节选） 吴承恩

Daily Quote The best of prophets of the future is the past. (George Gordon Byron) Poem of the Day 将进酒 李白 Beauty of Words Buds and Bird-voices Nathaniel Hawthorne

​Daily Quote 人生代代无穷已，江月年年只相似。（张若虚） Poem of the Day Song of Open Road Walt Whitman Beauty of Words Spring Annette Broadrick

Daily Quote Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly (Paulo Coelho) Poem of the Day Lullaby W. H. Auden Beauty of Words 一座长桥 金圣华

Daily Quote Life indeed must be measured by thought and action, not by time. (John Lubbock) Poem of the Day 旅夜书怀 杜甫 Beauty of Words How It Strikes a Contemporary Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote Life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. (Oscar Wilde) Poem of the Day Snow-Flakes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Beauty of Words The Roots of My Ambition (Excerpt) Russell Baker

Daily Quote The best of prophets of the future is the past. (George Gordon Byron) Poem of the Day 别董大 高适 Beauty of Words Impossibility: The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits (Excerpt) By John D. Barrow

Daily Quote The very best thing in all this world that can befall a man is to be born lucky. (Mark Twain) Poem of the Day 将进酒 李白 Beauty of Words A Walker in the City Alfred Kazin

Daily Quote If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book. (J.K. Rowling) Poem of the Day 苔 袁枚 Beauty of Words Defoe Virginia Woolf

Daily Quote In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. (William Blake) Poem of the Day Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow William Shakespeare Beauty of Words 语言与社会身份 林巍

Daily Quote There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum. (Carl Jung) Poem of the Day ‘Tis Customary as We Part Emily Dickinson Beauty of Words Letters to A Young Poet – the First Letter Rainer Maria Rilke

Daily Quote Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it is time for home. (Edith Sitwell) Poem of the Day Winter Memories Henry David Thoreau Beauty of Words 宴之趣（下） 郑振铎

Daily Quote Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now. (Arthur Clarke) Poem of the Day Into My Own by Robert Frost Beauty of Words 宴之趣（上） 郑振铎

Daily Quote Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Epicurus) Poem of the Day To Wordsworth Percy Bysshe Shelley Beauty of Words 济南的冬天 老舍

Daily Quote He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity. (John Burroughs) Poem of the Day 清明 黄庭坚 出塞 王昌龄 雁门太守行 李贺 Beauty of Words Bu…

为你读英语美文 · 第512期 主播：雲昊 录制地点：西安 小时候我喜欢和蓓蒂一起爬屋顶，瓦片温热，眼里是半个卢湾区，蓓蒂是我的邻居，喜欢弹钢琴，当时只有4岁，那样的午后是我对童年永远的记忆，时光如水，把人和事带来又一并带走，这些年被带走的又何止蓓蒂一个。 大暑之后必要大寒。一定记住，这是规律。 After the period of Great Heat comes the inevitable Great Cold. Bear this in mind as an inviolable law. 外行看门面，内行看后门。 Outsiders judge by appearances, insiders by what lies behind the scenes. 你以为吃的是龙虾，实际…

Daily Quote 凡明不得，行不去，须反在自心上体当。（王阳明） Poem of the Day Valentine Carol Ann Duffy Beauty of Words Francis Bacon (2) By Bertrand Russell

Daily Quote 人生各有志，终不为此移。（王粲） Poem of the Day Spring Pools Robert Frost Beauty of Words Francis Bacon (1) By Bertrand Russell

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 Life cannot be understood without much charity, cannot be lived without much charity. (Oscar Wilde) Poem of the Day To Wordsworth Percy Bysshe Shelley Beauty of Words Friedrich Nietzsche to Richard Wagner

为你读英语美文 · 第511期 主播：John 录制地点：纽约 John McAuley是严喆本科时的外教，曾在2015年为我们带来过第69期节目《The Daffodil Principle水仙花法则》，第120期《回顾2015》，2016年第144期《毕业赠言》，2018年《我为什么而活》。John曾在联合国总部工作，后来分别在非洲，日本，大连，台湾，香港工作和生活过，现在回到了家乡纽约。 从大连到上海，再到德国，这十多年来，严喆从本科读到博士，如今以访问学者的身份往返于中国和德国，也一直和John保持着亦师亦友的联系。当严喆读到I Still Matter 这首诗的时候，曾研究养老课题的他十分触动，我们终将老去，但我们将以什么样的心态面对衰老？ John今年72岁，有着丰富的人生阅历，…