Self-motivation poems
Part one
In life, career is the most important thing.
As long as you have one breath left, you will never let go.
The east wind prevails and the times are renewed.
Take advantage of this opportunity and move forward bravely.
Second
Spring silkworms don’t run out of silk until they are dead①, and people don’t stop until they are old②.
As long as there is still a breath left, you must work hard and leave it as a good area for youth③.
Both from: Wu Yuzhang
Notes:
①The spring silkworms will not run out of silk until they die: From "Untitled" by Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty. The original poem describes a woman's infatuation. Her love is like a spring silkworm spinning silk, which will end only after death. It is borrowed here to emphasize that revolutionaries will not stop pursuing revolution even when they are a hundred years old.
② Qi Yi: "Book of Rites: Ceremony": "The date of a hundred years is Yi." Later, the centenary year was called "Qi Yi".
③Category: Originally a philosophical term translated from Greek, it takes the meaning of the nine categories in "Shang Shu·Hong Fan". Here it refers to model and role model.
"Self-motivation Poems" is the work of the outstanding proletarian revolutionary Mr. Wu Yuzhang. This group of poems consists of two poems of different genres, written on November 12, 1959 and May 1960 respectively. This poem embodies the revolutionary spirit of a revolutionary who devotes himself to the revolutionary cause and even dies.