How does Cao Cao express his lofty aspirations and ambitions?

Through poetry and action.

His famous sentence: Although it's time to live, the old horse crouches, aiming at a thousand miles, and the martyr is in his twilight years. His "In a Short Song" is full of courage, and the duke of Zhou vomits and feeds, and the world returns to his heart. Shows his ambition.

All my life, I have been a prince by the emperor. I have never proclaimed myself emperor, and I would like to be Duke of Zhou.