美國時間：每日珠璣 (By Hanching Chung)

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Wikipedia Born :  December 3, 1857,  Berdychiv, Ukraine Died :  August 3, 1924,  Bishopsbourne, United Kingdom Full name :  Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski Movies :  Apocalypse Now ,  The Duellists ,  Hanyut ,  MORE Quotes The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. "Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!" — from VICTORY “The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, it always wants more tomorrow.”  ―from ONE D

Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and he spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.  Wikipedia Born :  October 2, 1879,  Reading, Pennsylvania, United States Died :  August 2, 1955,  Hartford, Connecticut, United States Poems :  The Snow Man ,  The Emperor of Ice-Cream ,  MORE Awards :  Pulitzer Prize for Poetry ,  Bollingen Prize ,  National Book Award for Poetry ,  Robert Frost Medal Quotes Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires. Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. As an aging insurance man, Wallace Stevens rose to Vice-President of the firm. As a poet, he found time to write