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Valuing Time Quotes

Quotes from poems related to cherishing time are as follows:

1, flowers have a re-blooming day, people do not have a young man again. --Chen Zhuo, "Continuing Nephew Pu's Appreciation of Yellows and Encouragement of Wine, One of Two Poems"

Appreciation: Through the depiction of natural phenomena, the poet expresses his feelings for the passage of time and his regret for the shortness of life. He emphasizes the irreversibility of time, i.e., although flowers will fade, there will always be a day when they will open again; whereas human life cannot go back to the teenage age again. It tells us the preciousness of time and the finite nature of life, and that we should cherish every moment and live up to our youth and time.

2. A hundred years is more than a hundred years, and today must be loved today.

Appreciation: The meaning of the poem is that even if there is a hundred years of time in life, how can there be another hundred years after a hundred years have passed? Since we have today, we should cherish every moment. The author, Wang Shizhen, expresses his understanding of the irreversibility of time and his feelings about the shortness of life with the verses obtained in his dream.

3. But I see that time flows like an arrow, and I do not know that the way of heaven is as curved as a bow. --The poet compares time to a flying arrow and the way of heaven to a curved bow, thus comparing the shortness and twists and turns of life. Through this metaphor, the poet expresses his helplessness and regret over the passage of time, and at the same time reveals the bumpy and winding road of life. With his own life experience as the background, he expresses his thoughts on time and his feelings about life.

4. If the young and strong don't work hard, the old and old will be sad -- Han Lefu's "The Long Song Xing"

Appreciation: This is a classic line from the Han Dynasty's Lefu Folk Songs, which expresses the author's profound thinking about life and cherishing of time. The truth expressed in this poem applies not only to the ancients but also to the life and work of modern people, it reminds us to cherish time, work hard and don't wait until we are old to regret.

5. Tomorrow and Tomorrow Again, How Many Tomorrows -- Qian Fu's "Song of Tomorrow"

Appreciation: The poem "Song of Tomorrow" mentions tomorrow seven times, urging the lost world to cherish every day and live in the present, and not to waste time by waiting forever for tomorrow and wasting time. The meaning of the poem is simple, the language is understandable, the reasoning is easy to understand, and it is very educational.